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When not working on behalf of clients, Tom is probably at a ballgame, snowboarding in Tahoe, or listening to overly detailed history podcasts.
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Failures Are Valuable IP: Protect Your Startup’s Negative Trade Secrets
Technology companies and start-ups are familiar with protecting inventions with patents, and protecting their secret formulas, source code, and algorithms as trade secrets. But tech companies may not be aware of another powerful form of...
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Highlights from 2022 Unified Patents Corporate IP Strategy Conference
Recently, several Farella lawyers attended the 2022 Corporate IP Strategy Conference, co-hosted by the Santa Clara University High Tech Law Journal and Unified Patents. Eugene Mar, Erik Olson, Dan Callaway, and Tom Pardini enjoyed...
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Protecting “What Not to Do” as a Negative Trade Secret
“Negative trade secrets”—i.e., secret know-how about what does not work—are generally protectable in California, but in practice have proven challenging for courts and litigants to discern. While a trade secret is a company’s intellectual...
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