{"id":16,"date":"2007-10-17T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2007-10-17T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T07:01:47","slug":"food-issues-and-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Food Issues and Trade Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"contentheading\" width=\"100%\">Can I get a patent for food items?<\/td>\n<td class=\"buttonheading\" align=\"right\" width=\"100%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/index2.php?option=com_content&amp;do_pdf=1&amp;id=11\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/index2.php?option=com_content&#038;do_pdf=1&#038;id=11','win2','status=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,titlebar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,width=640,height=480,directories=no,location=no'); return false;\" title=\"PDF\"> \t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/images\/M_images\/pdf_button.png\" alt=\"PDF\" name=\"PDF\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"buttonheading\" align=\"right\" width=\"100%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/index2.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=11&amp;pop=1&amp;page=0&amp;Itemid=25\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/index2.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=11&#038;pop=1&#038;page=0&#038;Itemid=25','win2','status=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,titlebar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,width=640,height=480,directories=no,location=no'); return false;\" title=\"Print\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/images\/M_images\/printButton.png\" alt=\"Print\" name=\"Print\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"buttonheading\" align=\"right\" width=\"100%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/index2.php?option=com_content&amp;task=emailform&amp;id=11&amp;itemid=25\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/index2.php?option=com_content&#038;task=emailform&#038;id=11&#038;itemid=25','win2','status=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,titlebar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,width=400,height=250,directories=no,location=no'); return false;\" title=\"E-mail\"> \t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/joomla\/images\/M_images\/emailButton.png\" alt=\"E-mail\" name=\"E-mail\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"70%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">The genral answer to that question is no.\u00c2\u00a0 However, you can create a trade secret if you want to build your food business off of an old family recipe, or a new innovation. Trade secrets can last longer than patents, but extensive steps must be taken to protect them. Particularly for food items, trade secrets can be secretly discovered by other people. Once a trade secret is made public, the value of the trade secret is gone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I get a patent for food items? The genral answer to that question is no.\u00c2\u00a0 However, you can create a trade secret if you want to build your food business off of an old family recipe, or a new innovation. Trade secrets can last longer than patents, but extensive steps must be taken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawofficealiciaporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}