Chapter 9. Property Protection: Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Patents, and Publishing Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is protected through copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents, which you learned about throughout this book. In this chapter, you'll learn how to initiate this protection for your own ideas.
Remember that for a patent, your idea must provide a novel solution to a problem, and the solution must be non-obvious based on common legal practices. If your idea doesn't pass this test, then intellectual property patent laws will not protect your idea.
A trade secret is a unique kind of intellectual property that isn't granted official status because, by its nature, a trade secret is out of public view. Your ...
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