Intellectual Property
Lawyers have traditionally focused on intellectual property as a matter of law (copyright, patent and trademark) and common law (unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secret). Recent changes to laws in virtually all jurisdictions make this focus more acute. Recent developments in the field of “knowledge capital” highlight the inadequacy of a purely legal approach, since “knowledge capital” is the know-how and knowledge references that the enterprise has developed over time, and which could be altered through an improperly planned outsourcing.
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