1. Intellectual property legal risks mainly include: trademark legal risks, patent legal risks, and trade secret legal risks.
2. Trademark legal risk prevention: In the process of cultivating commercial logos, your company must register trademarks in a timely manner, otherwise it will not be able to obtain the exclusive right to trademarks. The use of the same commercial logos by others does not constitute infringement to avoid The business logo that you invest a lot of manpower, material resources, and money to cultivate can be easily used by others. When your company applies for a registered trademark, you should try to avoid using words such as place names and common product names as trademarks. The design of the trademark should be distinctive and easy to identify, and fictional words are a better choice. At the same time, before you apply for a registered trademark or register a company name, please be sure to conduct a full search of prior trademark registration information and company names in the same industry. You should pay full attention to avoid conflicts of rights and avoid "behind famous brands". Otherwise, it is very likely to infringe on the prior rights of others, or fall into the scope of cross-class protection of other people's well-known trademarks. The company will not only suffer losses, but may also face claims from the rights holders, or face the need to stop the infringement, especially the use of the trade name.
3. The legal risks in the field of patent rights mainly include the legal risks of improper application and the legal risks of use without full permission.
(1) Legal risks caused by improper patent application strategy;
(2) Legal risks caused by improper drafting of patent specifications and claims;
(3) Legal risks of patent infringement;
4. The most fundamental legal risk of trade secrets is the risk of leakage of trade secrets. Enterprises should pay attention to the legal risks of trade secret leakage in the following links:
(1) The flow of core talents leaks trade secrets
(2) Illegal "undercover" leads to the leakage of trade secrets
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(3) Publishing academic papers will lead to the leakage of business secrets
(4) Leaking business secrets due to receiving visits and other reasons
The way to prevent similar risks is to establish Complete external reception policy, pay attention to the protection of business secrets during interviews and visits; organized visits should avoid core sensitive areas; sign confidentiality agreements with visitors and visitors; do not introduce the most core secrets to visiting reporters wait.