Every owner of invention or any kind of IP should be entitled to the later profit and to market and promote their own product, weather it is a painting, or exhibit or a business system.
Protecting IP is also seen as a method of promoting creativity. When no one is allowed to copy another person's work without permission then creativity is encouraged for everybody.
IP threats
Any public place where employees go, spies can also go: airports, restaurants, and places near company offices and facilities. An operative working for the competition might corner one of your researchers after a presentation, or pose as a potential customer to try to get a demo of a new product or learn about pricing from your sales team. Or that operative might …show more content…
This is convenient for remote employees to make a cross-facility communications, or working from home, or from notebook computers-which can increase vulnerability of a system.
• Protecting high valuable information (such as source code) with passwords and access codes. Making sure that they are not widely available in any outsourcing location. Approvals and permissions reduce flexibility but not so much as they reduce risk.
• Making sure that the outsourcers have close human resources screening. Find which employee holds figures, finding which competitor cooperating with the same companies and ensuring that there is no contact between teams.
• Knowing what risks an organization can take. Structured industries such as financial services and health care need to keep closer controls over data and software development than, say, packaged goods companies.
• Work to understand the legal system and culture of both countries. Negotiate contracts that make the offshore company responsible for the actions of its