COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND PRIVACY
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Copyright
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Patent
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Trade secret
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Trademark
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike patents, the protection of intellectual property in the form of trade secrets does not require the disclosure of related information to relevant authorities. Trade secret protection has an advantage of not being limited in time and may continue indefinitely as long as the secret is not revealed to the public.
Detailed explanation-2: -Trade secrets are intellectual property (IP) rights on confidential information which may be sold or licensed. In general, to qualify as a trade secret, the information must be: commercially valuable because it is secret, be known only to a limited group of persons, and.
Detailed explanation-3: -Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are valuable assets of the company and understanding how they work and how they are created is critical to knowing how to protect them.