Intellectual
Property – Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights.
Company patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights
are assets to be protected. It is important that we identify
and protect any new works of authorship, technological and
medical advances or unique solutions to business problems.
This will enable our company to take measures to protect these
new works under intellectual property laws. You should contact
the Law department if you suspect that a company patent, trademark,
copyright or trade secret is being infringed.
This means:
- Any product whose content is protected under a trademark
should be marked with the appropriate symbols such as “®”
(registered trademark), “™” (trademark)
or “sm” (service mark).
- Copyrighted works should contain the notice “©
(Year).” (Schering-Plough ). All Rights Reserved.
- Promptly complete and transmit to the Law department an
Invention Disclosure Form describing any potentially patentable
inventions.
Proprietary Information
of Others. Just as we protect our own confidential
information we respect the proprietary and confidential information
of others. This includes written materials, software, music
and other intellectual property.
This means:
- Confidential business information, including computer
records, from prior employers should not be brought to,
or used at Schering-Plough.
- Unlicensed software should not be loaded on any company
computer.
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