{"id":201,"date":"2011-01-11T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2011-01-11T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:31:38","slug":"e-car-battery-trade-secrets-allegedly-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/ia\/domain-names\/e-car-battery-trade-secrets-allegedly-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Car battery trade secrets allegedly stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg and other news organizations are reporting today a potentially high-stakes international trade secrets investigation which may lead to litigation. \u00a0The misappropriation\u00a0of trade secrets relating to the battery for Renault SA’s electric-car projects (France) may also have compromised Japanese affiliate Nissan Motor Co.\u2019s lithium-ion battery blueprints, as well as designs by LG Chem Ltd. (S. Korea) and Better Place (Calif. USA) according to press reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the verge of commercializing all-electric vehicles,\u00a0beginning\u00a0with Nissan’s Leaf<\/a> and competing with Chevrolet’s Volt, Renault revealed last week <\/a>it had suspended three senior executives, with a decision on permanent sanctions to follow, after a five-month internal investigation. \u00a0As it is to be expected, there are no direct official statements from the companies and executives involved.<\/p>\n

Trade secret\u00a0misappropriation\u00a0in a\u00a0technologically\u00a0dynamic sector is a\u00a0chronic\u00a0problem which organizations must confront with sound policies and procedures. \u00a0Trade secrets can last for as long as a company needs them, like the iconic 125-year-old Coca-Cola formula<\/a>. \u00a0Once disclosed, however, they cannot be retrieved and their commercial value vanishes, although civil litigation may stop further dissemination and recover economic damages. \u00a0In this sense, they are the most fundamental and primitive form of intellectual property.<\/p>\n

As an intellectual property consulting firm, IPmetrics has been instrumental in the appraisal and enforcement of for this type of property, as well as the rest of the spectrum, from Patents and Copyrights, to Trademarks and Rights of Publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The misappropriation of trade secrets relating to the battery for Renault SA’s electric-car projects (France) may also have compromised Japanese affiliate Nissan Motor Co.\u2019s lithium-ion battery blueprints, as well as designs by LG Chem Ltd. (S. Korea) and Better Place (Calif. USA) according to press reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-3f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}