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Intellectual Property

Aug. 31, 2012

Blog posts amount to misappropriation of trade secrets

In Art of Living, the court did not excuse the fact that the blog was only visited a few hundred times. By Dan Berman and Lisa Boswell of Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman LLP


By Dan Berman and Lisa Boswell


How does something that requires absolute silence thrive in a world full of communication? For decades, businesses depended on tight lips and rigid security; today, that may not be enough. The days of putting a secret formula in a secured safe or hiding valuables in vaults are long gone. The Internet has transformed business assets into something intangible. In the blink of an eye, businesses went from calculating wealth by liquid c...

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