As knowledge and intellectual property become more important than physical capital, businesses feel compelled to protect that intellectual capital by taking extraordinary steps.
He contends that his interest was reasonably ascertainable given his longstanding continuous occupation of the property and knowledge of his name and address by other city agencies and employees who had interacted with the plaintiff while he occupied the property.
Intellectual property such as patents, institutional knowledge collected and stored by employees, sentiment gleaned from millions of social media posts, and consumer insights from the analysis of myriad online transactions are just a few examples of information assets companies leverage today.
He says securing intellectual property (IP) ownership has become increasingly challenging because of the volume of open-source knowledge and the huge number of existing patents.