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Trade Secrets
Interestingly, the Consumer Services sector dominated the top 20 in this IP asset class. The highest scores go to those companies which have created robust trade secret protection policies and related IP culture within their businesses, protecting critical information and secret recipes. The highest scores went to Stevenson Astrosat, WFS Technologies (providers of subsea wireless instrumentation and control products), and LUX Assure, with Kromek and Smith & Sinclair (creators of alcoholic confectionery) not far behind. While trade secrets are gaining momentum as a way of protecting valuable information which might be ill-suited to patenting, there is still a lack of awareness around the importance of establishing the processes and controls for trade secret protection and management. This IP asset class had the largest spread of scores, with several entrants admitting they had trade secrets, but had no protection measures in place.
1 Stevenson Astrosat 2 LUX Assure 3 WFS Technologies 4 Kromek 5 Smith & Sinclair 6 Cytomos 7 WheelRight 8 Data Conversion Systems 9 The Nostrum Group 10 COREX (UK)
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11 Totseat 12 Eagle Genomics 13 Soapurity 14 Altia Solutions 15 Jones Publishing 16 Visual Products (Visorcat) 17 KB Group (UK) 18 Speech Graphics 19 Syrinix 20 Heald
Critical Databases
The top performers in this asset class were B2B Software companies, showing the growing emphasis on data capture and data management within the sector. There was a tight range in the top scores, with seven entrants ranking very closely together. Metail, Global Surface Intelligence (providing earth observation data analysis), Worldteachers Recruitment (an international education talent agency), Stevenson Astrosat (experts at sourcing, analysing and deploying satellite driven data), COREX, Exmos (software developers) and LUX Assure (developers of corrosion monitoring technology) all demonstrated highly effective controls and protection measures around database management.
1 Metail 2 Worldteachers Recruitment 3 Stevenson Astrosat 4 COREX (UK) 5 Global Surface Intelligence 6 Exmos 7 LUX Assure 8 TTS Pharma 9 Redu Group 10 Payfont
11 Mevgen Technologies 12 Digitonic 13 Speech Graphics 14 Bright Office 15 Hermes Apps 16 Biogelx 17 Downhole Energy 18 WheelRight 19 CC Technology 20 Sodash (Winterwell Associates)
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