Are you looking for a way to radically improve your products or expand your product lines with something cutting edge? Think about licensing someone else’s intellectual property. You would be surprised how much it can reduce your initial investment and risk, creating a win-win proposition for everyone involved. Just last week I was on a [...]
Thinking about “Know-How” as an asset is a relatively new phenomenon. A lot of business owners just don’t think this way, even if business school professors, consultants, and IP attorneys do. But know-how is the secret ingredient (sometimes literally) to lucrative and mutually beneficial licensing arrangements between many companies. First off, know-how broadly means the [...]
When someone has their trade secret recipe or product formula stolen, they come to an intellectual property attorney asking them to fix it. This is unfortunate. Sadly, there is no cure for lost information. A judge can’t put the genie back in the bottle. If an angry employee posts your customer list to the internet, [...]
So, now you should know the basics of what a trade secret is and whether it might be important to protecting the recipe or formulation of your product, not to mention lots of other stuff like your customer lists, production process, financials, and business plans. If you missed Is Your Recipe or Formulation a Trade [...]
So, now you should know the basics of what a trade secret is and whether it might be important to protecting the recipe or formulation of your product, not to mention lots of other stuff like your customer lists, production process, financials, and business plans. If you missed Is Your Recipe or Formulation a Trade [...]
Trade Secret is a misunderstood area of law. More on that later, but because “trade secret” is used in everyday language outside of business and has associations with spy thrillers and industrial espionage, people tend to think they know more than they actually do. The good news is that your recipe or formulation can be [...]
Guest Post By Charles H. Knull It isn’t often that the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on food related issues, even more rare that we see Food & Drug Administration policies pitted against unfair competition under the Lanham Trademark Act (that’s right, a food law v. IP law smackdown). Chuck Knull has contributed the guest post [...]
Book Review Not surprisingly, a serious business book being written as a graphic novel (aka. comic book) got some press. Mission in a Bottle is the story of Honest Tea, as told by founders Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, illustrated by artist Sungyoon Choi. From a pure book marketing perspective, it’s brilliant. The graphic novel [...]
Guest Post by Lev Berlin Lev Berlin at ReciPal has put together another excellent post to help food entrepreneurs figure out their product labeling. This time, he has taken a look at common food product certifications and labeling terms. Lev has once again been kind enough to let us reproduce the entire post here on [...]
Book Review Stories have power. As an entrepreneur and food geek, I collect stories about food businesses, their challenges, success, and missteps. So, I loved Financing Our Foodshed by Carol Peppe Hewitt. At its heard it is a collection of stories about small food businesses in North Carolina, the entrepreneurs who founded them and the [...]
