{"id":761,"date":"2015-11-25T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bfvlaw.com\/3924-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:00:07","slug":"3924-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bfvlaw.com\/3924-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Trade Secret Symbol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invited the public to help brainstorm, design and create symbols for various intellectual property rights.\u00a0 The apparent goal was to come up with symbols that would be as recognized as \u00a9 and \u00ae for other types of intellectual property.\u00a0 According to Russell Slifer, the deputy undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and the deputy director of the Patent and Trademark Office, \u201cicons are used to quickly convey concepts and topics to people from a broad range of backgrounds, helping overcome language and cultural communication barriers.\u201d\u00a0 Slifer further explained that \u201cinitially we envision the icons are going to be used on our website and other creative ways to make the concepts of intellectual property more readily understood by everyone, everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this project, a symbol for trade secrets has been developed (see below).<\/p>\n<p>For those who practice regularly in the trade secrets arena, this is yet another step toward validating trade secret status as equivalent in stature to patent, trademark and copyright protection.\u00a0 Trade secret owners may want to consider including this symbol on documents and other media containing trade secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invited the public to help brainstorm, design and create symbols for various intellectual property rights.\u00a0 The apparent goal was to come up with symbols that would be as recognized as \u00a9 and \u00ae for other types of intellectual property.\u00a0 According to Russell Slifer, the deputy undersecretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[139,137,29,140],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A New Trade Secret Symbol? 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