You're leading an open innovation project in R&D. How can you prevent IP theft effectively?
Leading an open innovation project in Research and Development (R&D) requires you to balance collaboration with the protection of your intellectual property (IP). To prevent IP theft effectively, follow these key strategies:
How do you ensure IP protection in collaborative projects? Share your strategies.
You're leading an open innovation project in R&D. How can you prevent IP theft effectively?
Leading an open innovation project in Research and Development (R&D) requires you to balance collaboration with the protection of your intellectual property (IP). To prevent IP theft effectively, follow these key strategies:
How do you ensure IP protection in collaborative projects? Share your strategies.
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To prevent IP theft in an open innovation R&D project, use NDAs, define clear ownership terms, and limit access to only necessary information. Employ encryption and secure data-sharing tools, monitor collaborations, and educate teams on IP protection. File patents or trademarks for key innovations and build trust through transparency and clear communication.
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From everyday activities point-of-view, there are several things we should put attention to to prevent IP leaking or theft: - Take pictures of technical notes (either on paper, notebook or white board) and give the date on the notes. These pictures can be a proof of our right when an IP dispute occurs. - Avoid attending conferences that may expose our interest and ideas on a specific filed. Some people can find what a company focuses on when they said the company representative attend a specific conference topics. - Do not make a public (both formal or informal) presentation of our work or ideas. Those presentation can block our IP to be granted a patent. - Do not published any articles before registering the IP to a patent office.
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Define clear IP ownership from the beginning, with agreements. Implement NDAS. Define communication strategy and rigorously follow it, implement closures on time.
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In our Patents we do something that makes it impossible to replicate our technology. We always leave something out of the recipe. An example. We might say we inject element atoms into the wide bandgap material but leave out what element and and sometimes how many atoms.
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