INDUSTRIAL SECRET
THE OLDEST FORM OF PROTECTING INNOVATION, WITH CONTRACTUAL FORMULAS
Confidential information of a proprietary nature that provides a competitive advantage over competitors can constitute a valuable asset that can be protected by trade secrets, as long as its confidentiality is maintained and ensured. To this end, it is advisable to bind the potential recipients (employees, collaborators, suppliers, strategic partners) of this confidential information through confidentiality agreements and other formulas that ensure the information communicated to any recipient.
In this way, manufacturing processes, assembly techniques, chemical formulas, product composition and any other type of technical and/or commercial information acquired through business experience, also known as "know-how", can be protected. Know-how can be the subject of legal transactions such as licensing or transfer, just like any other intangible asset of your company, and although it does not grant an exclusive right, its protection is obtained through mandatory confidentiality, as well as through unfair competition law and the criminal code, which punish the violation of trade secrets or the misuse of information communicated under an express or implied duty of confidentiality.
WHAT WE DO AT S/M
COPYRIGHT
The rights of authors, of those who create and communicate culture through their works
RIGHTS RELATED TO COPYRIGHT
Artists, producers and performers enable authors’ works to reach the general public
DESIGN LAW
Between the useful and the beautiful, designers produce objects that stride the line between creation and invention
TRADEMARK LAW AND OTHER DISTINCTIVE SIGNS
These are the signs, names and/or graphics that distinguish a product or service from others
DOMAIN NAMES
Are alphanumeric signs that delineate and lead to your little piece of space, but in virtual territory.
PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL LAW
Protects inventors, who invent things that facilitate our relationship with the environment in which we live
PLANT AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LAW
These are special inventions because they involve the modification of living beings, animals or plants.
INDUSTRIAL SECRET
The oldest form of protecting innovation, with contractual formulas
COMPETITION LAW AND UNFAIR COMPETITION
Fair competition must be regulated because competition is necessary, except when it is unfair
PATRIMONIAL RIGHT TO IMAGE
Image is the personal property of those who are able to give it value and can trade with it
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW
All of the above and more, but filtered through the technologies that digitisation has brought with it
DATA PROTECTION
Data and the information it provides is the new oil, and its use must be regulated
ENTERTAINMENT LAW
Another way of looking at intellectual property, from the mass media and the entertainment industry
ADVERTISING LAW
Creations affected by many rights, consumption, ip, image or competition
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS
The creations and inventions of groups that maintain their traditions also deserve regulation to protect them