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Legal Foundations Governing Data and Security in BI

Intellectual Property

Learning Objectives

After completing the material in this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Identify the principal kinds of intellectual property
  2. Understand the difference between patents and trade secrets, and why a company might choose to rely on trade secrets rather than obtain a patent
  3. Know what copyrights are, how to obtain them, and how they differ from trademarks
  4. Understand why some "marks" may not be eligible for trademark protection, and how to obtain trademark protection for those that are

Source: Jeff Lingwall, https://boisestate.pressbooks.pub/buslaw/chapter/intellectual-property/
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