How innovations and inventions are usually protected?
They are usually protected with Patents (Right granted by the Government to exclude others from making, using or selling products and services for a period of time) or Trade Secrets (where secrets safeguarded from disclosure to the public by appropriate company policies and procedures), Enabling publications (placement of inventions into the public domain to protect and enhance the value of IP Portfolios and a low cost way to protect Open Source technologies) or they do nothing (but the risk is that someone else could p…
