When Should You Get a Patent? J.D. Explains Why You Shouldn’t Wait Too Long to Protect Your Idea

hi everyone and welcome to the
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inventor's launchpad network this is
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common to disco and today we had one of
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my favorite shows the goal big kobold
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IP show and with me is my co-host mr. JD
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Huebner what's happening JD what's up
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out there hey carmine hey I'm doing good
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don't really get this beautiful weather
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up here in Seattle I'm looking at a
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gorgeous week ahead sunshine
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70s just what we're hoping for what we
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work so hard for during the winter yeah
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yeah not too many of those days up there
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I'm I'm glad when you get some good well
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I'm surprised that you even get to look
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outside I mean you have so many things
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going on I mean you got your show you
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got the podcast here you got your
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business I know you guys got a lot of
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things happening I mean it's great that
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you get to stick your head out and see
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what's going on I have to my wife helps
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me with that she works with me as you
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guys may know we did we booked a long
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weekend down in Oakland took three day
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we can take the girls down there and I
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had a great trip we have a fly down real
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quick and stated with my brother East
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Oakland was simple kind of like Oh
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Oakland but now I mean it's actually
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pretty cool very very you know holistic
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very sustainable it's wonderful Lake
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Merritt they had this huge farmers
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market I mean really like the top top
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end farmers market with really good food
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music really nice scene down there I'm
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it's not at all dangerous and scary so
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there's a lot of really cool things
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happening east of the bay I went to this
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place called fairyland and our little
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girls loved it it's kind of an
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interesting place has been around since
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the 50s
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and so they've got really interesting
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things you know Disney ish type rides
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and slide things like that no that's
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great yeah that's awesome no I'm I I
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grew J I love the Oakland area it's it's
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pretty cool then I also they got some
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great coffee shops on mm-hmm yeah I
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didn't know about the the market and you
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know if that's new now I haven't been
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there for several years but that out
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next time I'm in the area but cool man
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I'm glad you got to do that yeah I was
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just got back from the hardware show out
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in Vegas not sure when we're gonna be
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airing this episode but I was over at
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the hardware store out in Vegas it was
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crazy was a great inventors showcase
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they're sponsored by Home Depot United
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inventors Association it was with
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inventors man it was so cool I love this
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show because a lot of the inventors
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there have have gone over that hump you
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know they they manufactured a small
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amount or they're selling their product
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and and they really just now trying to
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get to that next level so it's nice
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seeing those those end results as you
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say you know you know you're doing the
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the paperwork form you're doing the
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patents and you know you always love to
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see that they're going and moving
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forward to those next levels so it's
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really nice to visit those shows
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absolutely yeah good deal we just got
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caught up we're so busy at the spring I
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had to get a chance to make it down that
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we had one one of our employees down
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there he said was just same thing you
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just said this packed a lot of people
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excited getting their products rolling
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kind of putting things together beyond
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the technology putting together actually
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business plans and getting it out there
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to people it's awesome and that's what
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invention is all about is competition
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and and new things always on the horizon
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keeping people on their toes it's
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awesome if we were just had these huge
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conglomerates it would be really boring
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we get we'd be just getting fed stuff
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and so we need those companies out there
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that are that are willing to push the
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envelope and continually change and
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challenge the status quo so it's really
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cool to hear yeah I I spoke with as many
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of the inventors as possible you know a
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lot of them have mentioned the podcast
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and they listened in and it was really
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cool to hear that and and that they're
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getting some information and you know
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what's weird is acting like 80% of the
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questions or the miscommunications that
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were revolved around intellectual
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property and things that they thought or
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or things that were happening to them
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and I was um I was happy that we have
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this show out and that you know it is it
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is helping because even at their level
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at you know they're selling that they
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still have those intellectual property
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questions and and I was surprised at
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that yeah it seems to be and I draw a
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lot of parallels to tax with what we do
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in people as they do business there they
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know taxes out there the but they almost
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I think my opinions they almost kind of
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feel like it's oh you know ok I gotta do
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this something I have to do but I'm
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sorry wanted
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but it's you know until you actually sit
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down and talk with a CPA it can actually
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be pretty exciting to learn about the
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different ways you can save or avoid
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liability similarly right you think oh
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gosh lawyers attorneys I don't wanna get
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involved IP it sounds so expensive and
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sticky now you can actually use it to
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leverage your business and make money
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it's just one other things people are
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afraid of they just had this notion that
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no lawyers attorneys expensive in
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trouble I don't want to deal with it I'm
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just out here making money well you got
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to slow down you got to stop and do that
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you know take that next step
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yeah I totally agree there's no doubt
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you know a couple of things we talked
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about with some of the inventors some of
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them they were they were getting
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knockoffs and they didn't know what to
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do
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you know they had talked to people and
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different things and and they weren't
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sure what to do with the knockoff some
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of them had trade secret issues they
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they weren't sure if they should go with
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a full patent or not or and and you know
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those are some things that that you know
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even I'm not sure you know with me I was
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just like you know that's something that
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I'm gonna talk to JD about you know I
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didn't want to give them the wrong
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information cuz it's pretty tricky right
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yeah there's some layers then we
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wouldn't rolling that into our
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presentation you know as you talked
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about earlier we get out we do
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presentations least three or four times
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a month and I've been talking about
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patents for quite a bit but this year I
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started rolling in some trade secret law
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into those presentations because it's
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more more critical now people especially
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in the software realm are looking to to
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make sure that if they're going to
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publicize something that is it's going
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to be bad protectable but if you if
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you've made that decision up front about
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your technology you want to patent it
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you got to make sure that yeah someone's
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not going to be able to reverse-engineer
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it so that's the big test okay so if
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you're if you've got any tick and you
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want to see whether you keep it in-house
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or the you seek patent protection for it
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you got to see whether it's reverse
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engineer able and if it's not reverse
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engineer well right think of Coca Cola's
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recipe you know think of you know
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Boeing's method for putting together
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there
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and fibre fuselage the actual method of
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putting it together the sort of the end
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product those are things that are that
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are actually tougher to tell you know
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how that thing was actually made and
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they couldn't you can't quite make that
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formula you know the right syrup and
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sugar additives at the right temperature
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to get the coke flavor you can't quite
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tell how long that carbon fiber was
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cured or how much adhesive was applied
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to that to get the fibers to lay out
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those are things that you can actually
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keep this trade secrets within your own
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company without seeking path protection
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big beauty of that is that you can
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protect it for as long as it remains
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secret well beyond potentially the 20
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years that you're allowed under patent
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law and so there's a couple things that
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goes with that right state state law
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does govern trade secrets and the
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ability to enforce them through
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misappropriation now there was just
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recently a new federal act the defend
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trade secret Act that you can now go
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interstate to seek Miss appropriators
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but there's still laws on the books and
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every state about trade secret what it
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means about all the states of Mo's I
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think it's 48 states out of 50 have
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signed up to this uniform trade secrets
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Act that governs the three elements well
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what does it mean to actually have a
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trade secret and it is you have to the
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information cannot be readily
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ascertainable it can't be generally
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known
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okay that's sort of an easy one the
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second one is that you have to be able
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to show and demonstrate your maintaining
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secrecy either expending money you're
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putting efforts into quit badge security
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systems on the doors or you're investing
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money to encryption software you're
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putting in limitations and security and
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passwords for certain access to
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electronic documents you know those are
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those would be good examples of ways
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you're protecting it you know there's
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something physical if there's actually a
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you know handwritten recipe you know
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that it's actually in a safe you know a
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physical safe you've got you've
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safeguarded it the third element is that
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it must be economically valuable to your
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company sort of interesting right but
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the best test for this is that if it got
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in the hands of a competitor that
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competitor we would put it to use and
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make money
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virtually right away
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so that's how you kind of tell whether
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you've got a trade secret worth
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protecting and within that is that title
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of a question of hey once you sell if
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you were to sell this
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could someone figure it out how to do it
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on their own if the answer is yes you
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should seek patent protection for it but
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if it's no and you're fairly certain
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that's a no go ahead and keep it as a
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trade secret that's really no reason for
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you to seek patent protection for it so
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so to me I know all of our vendors are
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going well I I want my invention to be a
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secret I mean obviously there are
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certain things that you know as you said
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you know if you're baking a new ashtray
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there's you know you don't have to go
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for that is there an extra cost or
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they're extra levels you know to get
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that trade secret verification well see
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that's the thing that there's no
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certificate there's no form there's no
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document here is your trade secret right
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and that's sort of an interesting
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question no that doesn't exist it's if
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you follow those three rules you have
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the ability to enforce your trade secret
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against a person that misappropriates
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that's the term instead of infringement
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someone that takes in the the trade
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secret information and uses it for
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purposes other than what you would agree
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to so most cases it's a it's a you know
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angry employee right someone that's
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vindictive wants to start up their own
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competitive business downloads about you
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know a bunch of documents quits the next
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day starts up their own competing
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industry this actually happened right
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very recently with the way Moe versus
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uber case and self-driving vehicles she
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settled for two hundred plus million
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dollars Hooper had to pay that
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complicated set of facts with the high
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level is that high level engineer at way
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mo which is alphabet right at Google's
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company owned and so they had engineer
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he worked for you know five ten years he
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was a high-level executive engineer type
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knows quite a bit he downloaded 15,000
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documents and then quit two days later
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to open up his competing company which
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was then purchased by uber magically
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within a month and so that looked really
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bad right to over
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for them just to buy out this engineer
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kind of buying the brain of their
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competitor for the self-driving car
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space and they got stopped with the
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lawsuit no way and what came after uber
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and we all thought it was gonna go to
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trial with all the attorneys were
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watching it we're hoping to get some you
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know judicial opinion on it but it's
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settled
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it's not a court for this and it was
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disclosed at 259 so it's a great you
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know the great feather in the cap - hey
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if you do quality you do meet those
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requirements you can certainly enforce a
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trade secret and so within those
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documents way mo had done their job to
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at least limit limit the access they had
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demonstrated they were not part of the
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public knowledge and that they were
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immediately valuable whatever that
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information was surprising to a lot of
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people when I do this discussion that
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you know what can what's considered
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trade secret and even something as
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simple as a customer list yeah it's
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trade secret
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just business processes you know how you
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do one thing how you deliver your
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product or service is trade secret and
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so it's important you know when you're
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starting you know this how it kind of
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bleeds over to employment law there's a
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lot more I could talk about with that
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you know it's and we'll get back to it
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it's amazing to me that a high-level
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executive would not know that you can
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track everything that he downloaded I
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mean how crazy it would he be I mean
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it's insane to me that he mean he was
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with the company for so long he should
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know that a network and the IT guys or
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IT department can track everything you
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did yeah yeah they're like so there's a
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lot more facts you know we could we can
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actually probably do a whole series on
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this and I could lay out the timeline
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III think at least one layer facts is
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that the individual the person that left
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did not think they were trade secret of
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course when we had a different yeah
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opinion of that so yeah he's you've got
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to be really careful err on the side of
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this is trade secret right if you're
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within a company and it's knowledge that
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no one else has you've got to put two
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and two together and you're right I
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think there was just what are you
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thinking kind of a thing you this is
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this is pretty blatant you
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you know yeah I agree should have known
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paid the price
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and actually the there is a parallel
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criminal investigation
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uber may be liable for a corporate
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espionage you know type of thing so on
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top of the you know the the civil
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damages for the tort misappropriation
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they may have some criminal issues as
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well sure I mean they can lead áown load
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fifteen thousand oh it's okay there well
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yeah and you know part of what comes up
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and not in my roadshows is as well
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and I look around the room would you
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know if one of your employees downloaded
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a thousand documents yeah would you know
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at all so are those systems in place are
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you doing enough to safeguard it ensure
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this sort of expense there but maybe
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it's not too bad maybe it's worth
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looking into there's a lot of it comes
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down to not necessarily what you know
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what you have in your tech it's how well
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you've contracted with and know your
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employees yeah is really what the trade
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secret law comes down to yeah
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and just let listeners know there's
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there's a lot of soft words a lot of
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platforms that you can you can put onto
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your networks or your systems that would
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alert you to employees downloading to
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external drives or not that you want to
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be the eagle eye but if you have that it
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worry there are some software's out
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there that are low cost I mean there's
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some cool stuff out there but anyway
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back to back to the trade secrets
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probably one of the most famous things
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that and you mentioned is coca-cola
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secret formula I mean it has ever been
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any kind of case that that an employee
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tried to mimic it or stole it or I mean
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this that's gotta be going what for over
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a hundred years that yeah I don't mean
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I'm sure there are had to happen I
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should have one at least so I can ramble
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it off but knowing well actually I think
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there's rumored to have been a
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ex-employee that went over write the
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recipe went over to Pepsi and was like
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hey mister or missus CEO I've got the
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secret recipe and the interesting
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response is the Pepsi president said get
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away from me
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go out and get out of here I don't want
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that anywhere close to me because it's
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obvious yeah and we're gonna get busted
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right this is so that's sort of the the
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tribal that sort of sort of the legend
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around that is it no they don't you know
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you have to be very careful so this goes
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for companies that are receiving you
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know competing companies high level
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executives there are contracts in place
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for those transfers and so it's
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interesting to think cuz there is a
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certain amount of what's called you know
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knowledge or know-how that person can't
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you know do the men in black you know of
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mind eraser thing they've learned a lot
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in their career and so you can they
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can't leave everything at the old
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company but you can actually itemize
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certain things that will remain with you
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know the company that they're leaving so
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that everyone's you know on the same
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page you can imagine this might have
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happened with you know big CEOs moving
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from like four Digium or even from
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Boeing to Ford you know big high-level
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companies there's maybe not direct
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competitors but they have knowledge and
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then do some industry research that
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that's been done that would be
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considered trade secret yeah that's a
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good point I mean that's where you know
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at some point where do you draw the line
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I mean obviously you know you have
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knowledge you have experience you say
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you've worked with a company for twenty
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years and and you bother that company
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shuts down or you move on to another
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company I mean there's II just can't
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erase your mind but there is that gray
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area where you know you have to really
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decide who you are in the world or what
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you can supply yeah absolutely yeah I
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mean then it's a tougher that's part of
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the decision you made you're you're
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making even if you don't know it at the
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time you're making a decision when you
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come on as an employee that you're
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you're agreeing to keep everything that
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is confidential within that campaign
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people don't usually think of that and
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so that's why a lot of you know
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consultants won't sign non-disclosure
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agreements you know that's a lot of
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folks that have kind of been around and
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understand if they're exposed to a lot
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of individuals and companies
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they're gonna be out of business if
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they've signed all these ndas because
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now they can't they can't share what
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they've learned right that's how you
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become a better consultant for example
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of course you wouldn't cite specifics
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but you'd be able to that's how you stay
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sharp it's how you build to know what's
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best is to learn on the job but as
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employee for sure no wise employer is
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gonna make you sign that and you're
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giving up quite a bit people don't
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realize sometimes how much you're giving
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up yeah well that's why it's important
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obviously to speak with somebody like
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yourself just to get a good idea good
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grasp on it because it could maybe not
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affect you you know in the near future
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but in the long run if your company
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starts doing well or you get bought out
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like with uber bought that come I mean
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it really it could take a quick turn on
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you you bet you bet and it's probably
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more applicable to those that are
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switching mid-career you know maybe
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you've been a solo or an inventor and
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they're thinking about joining a company
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you've got to make sure you consider
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inventor ship and ownership and in those
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employment contracts that almost always
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is a clause about invention assignments
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and when you're on the job working in
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you know for what your boss has asked
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you to do anything in that realm and
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maybe even a little halo outside of that
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would belong to the company you know
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even if you're working off hours
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quote-unquote if you're being paid
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salary and your job is to create a new a
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new internet that I watched this show
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silicon I don't need to be a and and you
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know the new internet and and you've
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always had this passion II before
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joining the company whoops
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right anything that's improvement or
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iterated from that would actually become
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part of the company no one by the
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company not you individually so you got
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to make sure you're protecting yourself
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you know when you're gonna go work for
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somebody else do you ever you get that a
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lot I know that in the pharmaceutical
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industry I did some consulting and they
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were really you know there were some of
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these mad you know and that mad science
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is these guys are super scientists they
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had a little lab set up at their own
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houses and we're doing things and and I
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could see that being a conflict of
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interest
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sure gosh yeah you definitely compare
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you know what
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your job description yeah when you're on
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the job you know what is your what is
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your senior authority level asked you to
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work on and if that's at all in
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alignment with what you're trying to
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invent off hours there's going to be a
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conflict and then the company is gonna
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go to claw that back and claim ownership
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potentially see I'm used to you it's
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sort of a bummer that as part of the
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what you're giving up when you you know
20:26
take that nice safe salary or income you
20:29
know that's one of the big benefits for
20:32
the employers that they get you know the
20:34
intellectual capital of your employee so
20:37
yeah we definitely talk about that with
20:39
new new clients that are working
20:41
full-time it's a major consideration I
20:44
want to make sure we're talking to the
20:45
right person maybe we should be talking
20:47
to the general counsel yeah it's such a
20:50
fun conversation for the Inventure
20:51
anymore
20:52
yeah another question that came up at
20:56
the show and it's you know could be
20:57
something that went imited on time
20:59
anyway but something that came up was I
21:02
had a few gentlemen talk about how they
21:04
were getting selling their products but
21:08
then there was some knockoffs that were
21:09
on the market nude or the through Amazon
21:11
or other stores one gentleman had this
21:13
really cool LED light system and and
21:17
he's having a trouble with the actual
21:20
factory that produced his product and
21:23
they are selling it also they're making
21:26
it I forget it wasn't in China which you
21:28
know is automatic but it was outside the
21:30
US and that factory is making the
21:33
product and selling it externally and he
21:35
is just beside himself because I mean
21:38
it's just you know he feels like he has
21:40
no way just to stop that well I mean
21:43
yeah if you have are his rights granted
21:46
for a patent does he have a pet filing
21:49
at all do you know I believe he has
21:51
filed but it was mild yeah yeah so in
21:55
the state of pendency it is difficult
21:57
because you don't have any rights and
21:59
when you file a patent application
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before the examiner's and the USPTO is
22:04
granted it or it allowed the invention
22:07
to issue you don't have any right you
22:10
your rights
22:10
so severe it's a challenge if certainly
22:13
as a challenge where you're waiting in
22:14
the pendency
22:15
period what we do for our clients as we
22:17
write extremely nasty letters that talk
22:22
about our prospective rights talk about
22:25
how how we've protected a certain scope
22:27
of rights under claims itemize it
22:29
identify VA you know it's sort of an
22:31
infringement analysis assuming that the
22:34
rights get granted putting those people
22:36
on notice that if they if they were to
22:39
continue out with this activity we bill
22:42
to get retroactive damages back to the
22:45
date of issuance and so and actually
22:47
before then right to the day they've
22:49
been using it because that they're
22:51
taking a big gamble that you're they're
22:54
kind of guessing well one either they're
22:55
gambling you're not going to get the
22:56
rights granted or that you're gonna give
23:00
up on your patent and they're not gonna
23:01
get caught so yeah that's one that
23:05
certainly is tough you know the way to
23:06
head that off up front no hindsight is
23:09
to make sure you're contracting with
23:10
people using enforceable contracts you
23:18
know sort of a given but if they're
23:20
overseas they get more complex
23:22
absolutely and you'd have to make sure
23:24
you you're working with counsel in those
23:27
other countries to do it right and so if
23:29
I was contracting with let's say India
23:32
you'd want to have it be binding in in a
23:37
court within India and the US attorney
23:39
is not qualified to do that
23:42
so that contract should be Co drafted
23:44
with an attorney in India you know
23:47
within the province and legs I don't
23:48
even know Indian law but it's given that
23:49
as an example and so if they breach that
23:52
contract which I'm sure this Act would
23:55
have been a breach right to to start
23:57
manufacturing another line of a
23:59
competing product and using the same
24:01:00
product sounds that could be a breach I
24:03:00
mean you'd want at least first craft the
24:05:00
contracts so that that scenario would be
24:06:00
a breach then once they bridged taking
24:09:00
the core right you've got to enforce it
24:11:00
and go right away so if they found out I
24:14:00
mean even if without you know patents
24:16:00
aside if they breached a contract that's
24:18:00
just contract law you got to go take
24:20:00
care of business so just be a little bit
24:22:00
smarter about engaging with parties and
24:25:00
makes things more difficult certainly if
24:27:00
you go overseas it's
24:28:00
the risks you take by having it be a
24:31:00
little cheaper right so perhaps
24:34:00
rethinking that having it be made here
24:36:00
in the States we keep things on
24:38:00
underneath one set of laws of course
24:41:00
states are different but they should be
24:42:00
a little easier to access and all that
24:46:00
so hope that helps
24:47:00
no definitely does and and I think you
24:50:00
have mentioned it in Prior shows and we
24:52:00
talked about it is uh you know to send
24:54:00
it and like you said get it get somebody
24:56:00
whether it's in India or here gets get
24:58:00
an attorney to draft uh not to go after
25:01:00
him right away draft the letter and and
25:03:00
let him know hey listen you're doing
25:05:00
this can't do it you know stop like you
25:07:00
said you know start businesslike be
25:09:00
businesslike but find out their
25:10:00
intention to totally yeah absolutely
25:13:00
yeah yeah I mean and if yeah a lot of
25:17:00
it's negotiable and you had a anyway I
25:21:00
could talk to do a whole show on how to
25:22:00
do you know that type of a contract you
25:26:00
know we don't how we used to do a lot
25:28:00
more of that where we're now focused on
25:30:00
you're just doing delivering the best
25:32:00
possible patent work and so we have we
25:34:00
have really focused our efforts at both
25:36:00
pads to work with inventors on
25:39:00
prosecuting and drafting their
25:41:00
applications we're really becoming
25:43:00
experts and I would say industry leaders
25:45:00
in that fee in that industry in
25:48:00
mechanical aerospace pharmaceutical
25:51:00
electrical certainly software so it's
25:54:00
really proud of that but we have
25:55:00
attorneys that we work with pretty
25:57:00
carefully outside of our firm I do
25:58:00
contracts like that and I have no
26:01:00
problem referring those out you know
26:03:00
because they do write all day every day
26:05:00
it's craft those agreements so yeah but
26:07:00
network of specialists is I think that's
26:09:00
the way law is going it's a really
26:11:00
powerful way to serve really high value
26:14:00
clients as long as the clients can
26:16:00
become more and more sophisticated over
26:17:00
asking better questions now and it's an
26:20:00
exciting time to be involved of course
26:22:00
in innovation and so we're building our
26:24:00
network of really strong people to refer
26:26:00
to you know whether it's manufacturing
26:28:00
and designing and shipping putting
26:31:00
contracts together getting investor
26:34:00
money is it's really fun to to work in a
26:37:00
really smart group like that you know
26:40:00
well it's have you said it's fast
26:42:00
you really need to be specific and
26:45:00
technical you only seems like you have
26:47:00
this window of time so you really need
26:49:00
to hand it off to somebody who does it
26:51:00
they know what they're doing there's no
26:52:00
delay those specific type of attorneys
26:55:00
that handle just this vertical or just
26:58:00
this specific topic you know that window
27:01:00
of opportunity before you need to just
27:04:00
get it done yeah totally absolutely I
27:07:00
walk just like you do we're just on the
27:09:00
weak here over on this end
27:10:00
but I say we to wrap this one up but I'm
27:13:00
gonna put a couple bullet points for for
27:15:00
next time we talk I want to I want to
27:17:00
bring out some examples of some trade
27:19:00
secret you asked about coke but have a
27:21:00
funder bring some case law it's gonna
27:23:00
bring some of these trade secret cases
27:25:00
to light and how people going to decide
27:27:00
whether it keep things in-house or not
27:29:00
and I want to bring in another example
27:31:00
of software then we could talk about
27:33:00
that as well but how did katas keep
27:35:00
instructure source code separately from
27:38:00
what you're seeking protection for under
27:40:00
patent law yeah that's awesome and it's
27:42:00
a it's kind of really exciting stuff I
27:44:00
mean everyone that we talked to all
27:46:00
every conversation goes back to some
27:49:00
type of IP question IP law because it's
27:53:00
so important and that's why I love this
27:54:00
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27:56:00
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