Intellectual property education is becoming a requisite to effective SME management.
IP Education: A Requisite To Business Management!
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Safeguarding Intangible Assets & IP
Mergers and Acquisitions: Covenants To Monitor Intangible Assets
Safeguarding Intangible Assets & IP
In M&A’s, if control, use, ownership, and value of about-to-be-acquired/purchased (intangible) assets can’t be sustained, there’s a high probability the desired – projected returns, synergies, efficiencies, etc., will be significantly impaired, diminished, or left unrealized altogether.
Protecting Intangible Assets…It’s Still A New Dimension For Some Companies!
Safeguarding Intangible Assets & IP
Sustaining (protecting, preserving) control, use, ownership and monitoring the value and materiality of a company’s intangible assets, should routinely be on c-suite and board agendas and high (fiduciary) priorities for security directors (CSO’s), legal (IP) counsel, and CFO’s.
Insider Theft Of IP And Intangible Assets
Safeguarding Intangible Assets & IP
Insider theft of company IP and proprietary know how and other intangible assets will rise proportionately with the economic fact that higher percentages of company value, sources of revenue, sustainability, and future growth now lie in – evolve directly from those obviously valuable assets.
Insider Risks-Threats: Their Proclivity, Propensity, Receptivity Can Change From Date Of Hire…
Safeguarding Intangible Assets & IP
Precise information about insider theft of information assets is often blurred or incomplete because (a.) evidence is largely anecdotal and company/situation specific, (b.) victim companies are frequently predisposed to assume the culprit is a foreign national or economic-defense adversary, and/or (c.) instructive evidentiary-investigatory elements of the incident become classified or are considered ‘reputationally’ proprietary by the victim company.
The ‘Insider Threat’ – Who’s Your Most Successful Competitor…?
Safeguarding Intangible Assets & IP
Continuing to rely on snap-shot-in-time honesty-integrity types of pre-employment screening assessments that are oriented more toward projecting an employees’ proclivity for stealing tangible-physical assets, i.e., desk staplers rather than ulta valuable intangible assets is unacceptable.