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Trademarks: The “misunderstood” intellectual property

Nature Biotechnology volume 20, pages 627–628 (2002)Cite this article

There's more to a company's intellectual property than its patents and trade secrets.

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  1. partners in the trademark and copyright group at Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, Two Embarcadero Center, 8th Floor, San Francisco, 94111, CA

    E. Lynn Perry & Margaret C. McHugh

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Perry, E., McHugh, M. Trademarks: The “misunderstood” intellectual property. Nat Biotechnol 20, 627–628 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0602-627

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