Tag: Trade Secrets

Throughout the history of commercial intellectual property, the relationship between capital, tools, and ownership remained legally consistent. When an enterprise commissioned software code, architectural blueprints, or technical documentation, the legal system allocated ownership through established statutory mechanisms. If an employee authored the work within the scope of their employment, the corporation owned it under the […]

In the early rush to commercialize generative artificial intelligence, thousands of software founders believed they had engineered defensible intellectual property inside the system prompt. Product teams spent months tuning natural-language instructions: embedding domain-specific taxonomy, formulating few-shot behavioral guidelines, establishing error-handling routines, and writing behavioral guardrails into dense text blocks. This prompt was treated as the […]