Archive for ‘OPSEC, Economic Espionage & Competitive Intelligence’
May 1st, 2013
OPSEC and IPCI, You’re Never Too Small.
OPSEC and IPCI, You’re Never Too Small. Is it fair that the large and the well moneyed companies steal a start-up company’s IPCI? Fairness does not matter, this is what [...]
April 1st, 2013
Trends In Intellectual Property Loss
Trends In Intellectual Property Loss – A Private Survey Intellectual property loss is defined as any theft, misappropriation, or inadvertent disclosure of an organization’s intellectual property or proprietary information, such [...]
March 1st, 2013
No More Saturday Mail
No More Saturday Mail A vast majority of those surveyed both in business and at home say that the loss of Saturday mail delivery will not affect them very much. [...]
February 1st, 2013
United States v Nosal
United States v Nosal In United States v. Nosal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that an employee’s use of confidential information, in violation of their [...]
January 1st, 2013
Patent Search Tools
Some good patent search tools when doing patent research or looking for help with the research. Resources The US Patent and Trademark Office (www.uspto.gov/) has an excellent pubic interface. And [...]
December 16th, 2012
Patent Whiners
I have been reading a series of stories in the Wall Street Journal, Tech Republic, Business Week, Wired etc.. about what a horrible world it is as people are working [...]
November 1st, 2012
Data Extortion
It is not new but it is becoming much more common. Many hackers have found that information that is stolen, much like jewelry, has a poor resale value. An insurance [...]
October 1st, 2012
Open Source Innovation
We all get it, innovate or die. More acutely we must craft profitable innovations that are unique where above average margins can be harvested, at least for a bit of [...]
September 1st, 2012
Meaningful Nondisclosure and Noncompetition Agreements
As OPSEC professionals we are only too aware that the level of our security is exactly as low as our weakest link. This becomes painfully obvious when our suppliers and [...]
August 1st, 2012
Indicator Behavior and Pressures Lead to Problems in Media.
Plagiarism, adjective festooned interviews, and other cases of reporter misconduct are indicators of a dying business model. Newspapers are not making much money so they have to be ever more [...]
