Discretion The "golden rules" of industrial property
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Nearly all types of property rights require the item to be protected to be new at the date of application (that is the day the respective application is filed with the Trademark Office). To conduct the presentation of an item that is not yet registered may impede a later property right application (for example in the case of a patent or a design patent!). Therefore, we strongly recommend that what we call the “golden rules” of industrial property are complied with:
1. Invent
2. File
3. Publish!!!
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Just following the aforementioned rules does not guarantee, however, that uninvolved third parties will not get to know about the innovations. The largest source of risk in this connection is the internet. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that any sensitive information about an innovation which is not yet protected, (no matter which sort, no matter at which point in time) is not transmitted by e-mail, for example: the description of a concept or a draft sent to a cooperation partner, the drawings of an external design office, product descriptions sent to an advertising agency or invention descriptions for a patent application.
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