Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Know-How-Diebstahl
English translation:
intellectual property theft
Added to glossary by
jccantrell
Dec 16, 2014 22:05
9 yrs ago
German term
United States
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden.
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
Know-How-Diebstahl
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Computers: Systems, Networks
Hi folks.
This comes up in a press release document. Here is the paragraph:
Aktive Partnerschaften mit Firmen wie XXX, einem der größten Anbieter der Welt im Bereich Informationssicherheit, eröffnen weitere Möglichkeiten im Bereich sicherer Feature-basierender Lizensierungsmodelle sowie Methoden zum Schutz vor Know-How-Diebstahl im Bereich Applikationssoftware.
I find "know-how theft" but these references seem to all come from German websites, which makes me suspicious. (So, don't insist on this translation unless you have some real English references.)
Does this just mean "intellectual property theft"?
All contributions gratefully accepted.
This comes up in a press release document. Here is the paragraph:
Aktive Partnerschaften mit Firmen wie XXX, einem der größten Anbieter der Welt im Bereich Informationssicherheit, eröffnen weitere Möglichkeiten im Bereich sicherer Feature-basierender Lizensierungsmodelle sowie Methoden zum Schutz vor Know-How-Diebstahl im Bereich Applikationssoftware.
I find "know-how theft" but these references seem to all come from German websites, which makes me suspicious. (So, don't insist on this translation unless you have some real English references.)
Does this just mean "intellectual property theft"?
All contributions gratefully accepted.
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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Michael Martin, MA
United States
United States
Native in German
&
English
United States
Creativity wins in the long run
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) 
, English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
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intellectual property theft
Whether installed on a PC or embedded in high-value hardware, software applications contain the sensitive information and intellectual property (IP) that defines how an application or device functions. It is critical to the success of any software publisher that this proprietary information is safe from prying eyes, manipulation, and theft. Software pirates, competitors, and customers pose a risk to the security and ultimately the profitability of your business. - See more at: http://www.safenet-inc.com/software-monetization/ip-protecti...
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Lancashireman
: Once again illustrating that you can't go far wrong on this site by feeding the asker's own suggestion back to them.
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Now you're telling me. I should have started doing that 3 years ago..
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks to everyone. I never thought this would generate so much response. I also neglected to look at Safenet, which bills its products as "IP protection."
So, thanks to everyone but I went with Michael's suggestion as it seems to fit in with the rest of the text."
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49 mins
misappropriation of expertise
As an alternative to what you yourself have already proposed and Michael has kindly endorsed.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-BdsOiWvwIgC&pg=PA37&lpg...
or
http://tinyurl.com/lwfhzhe
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-BdsOiWvwIgC&pg=PA37&lpg...
or
http://tinyurl.com/lwfhzhe
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SuzukiBandit
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Thanks, SB. JC liked his original idea best.
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Nora Morrison
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Thanks, Nora. JC liked his original idea best.
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misappropriation of know-how
misappropriation of know-how
Missappropiation= Entwendung
Somit wird der Begriff "theft" vermieden...
Hier handelt es sich meiner Meinung nach um Know-how das noch nicht patentiert wurde.
In dem unten aufgeführten Link heisst es:
„Pursuant to the strategy, the Commission ordered a study to assess national laws concerning trade secrets (know-how), with the purpose of assessing whether an EU-wide approach to protection was necessary. For the purposes of the Commission’s investigations, know-how is defined within the Technical-Transfer Block Exemption (Regulation 770/2004) as commercial, confidential information of a technical nature that is not patented and is substantial and identifiable.
Intelectual Property
Beim geistigen Eigentum haben die Besitzer dessen, schon irgendwelche Rechte auf ihr geistiges Eigentum angemeldet
Intelectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) is a legal term that refers to creations of the mind. Examples of intellectual property include music, literature, and other artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Under intellectual property laws, owners of intellectual property are granted certain exclusive rights. Some common types of intellectual property rights (IPR) are copyright, patents, and industrial design rights; and the rights that protect trademarks, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. Intellectual property rights are themselves a form of property, called intangible property.
Missappropiation= Entwendung
Somit wird der Begriff "theft" vermieden...
Hier handelt es sich meiner Meinung nach um Know-how das noch nicht patentiert wurde.
In dem unten aufgeführten Link heisst es:
„Pursuant to the strategy, the Commission ordered a study to assess national laws concerning trade secrets (know-how), with the purpose of assessing whether an EU-wide approach to protection was necessary. For the purposes of the Commission’s investigations, know-how is defined within the Technical-Transfer Block Exemption (Regulation 770/2004) as commercial, confidential information of a technical nature that is not patented and is substantial and identifiable.
Intelectual Property
Beim geistigen Eigentum haben die Besitzer dessen, schon irgendwelche Rechte auf ihr geistiges Eigentum angemeldet
Intelectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) is a legal term that refers to creations of the mind. Examples of intellectual property include music, literature, and other artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Under intellectual property laws, owners of intellectual property are granted certain exclusive rights. Some common types of intellectual property rights (IPR) are copyright, patents, and industrial design rights; and the rights that protect trademarks, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. Intellectual property rights are themselves a form of property, called intangible property.
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SuzukiBandit
: German false friend for what we would call "expertise".
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know how is used in German too
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knowledge theft/theft of proprietary knowledge
"One of the studies commissioned by the American Society of lndustrial Security found that theft of proprietary knowledge from US corporations had increased by..."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/q2xptnt
And:
"Such pre-patent concepts (including unprotected designs, 3D applications, service design, business models and processes) are consistently purloined by others on the basis that ideas cannot be protected. But these are not merely unsubstantiated ideas — they are tradable knowledge-based solutions developed by professionals with know-how. Under these circumstances, utilising and commercialising someone else’s work is surely knowledge theft? "
Source: http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/articles_print.php?CID=...
Source: http://tinyurl.com/q2xptnt
And:
"Such pre-patent concepts (including unprotected designs, 3D applications, service design, business models and processes) are consistently purloined by others on the basis that ideas cannot be protected. But these are not merely unsubstantiated ideas — they are tradable knowledge-based solutions developed by professionals with know-how. Under these circumstances, utilising and commercialising someone else’s work is surely knowledge theft? "
Source: http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/articles_print.php?CID=...
Peer comment(s):
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Lancashireman
: Another one of those anticlimaxes which are so rife on this site.
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Buck up, lad, ets nobbut a short while lang til Kessenmas
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Reference comments
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Bernhard Sulzer
United States
United States
Native in German
United States
High quality at a reasonable price
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, German, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
Reference:
know-how in comparison w/ intellectual property
... in the field (area) of application software
It can be understood as part of IP, but it's not used in legal terms unless defined/specified. So if it's not defined separately in your text, I wouldn't use "know-how" theft.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/ipr/ipr
IPT:
It’s robbing people of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions—what’s called intellectual property—everything from trade secrets and proprietary products and parts to movies and music and software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-how
Definition of industrial know-how
Know-how can be defined as confidentially held, or better, 'closely held' information in the form of unpatented inventions, formulae, designs, drawings, procedures and methods, together with accumulated skills and experience in the hands of a licensor firm's professional personnel which could assist a transferee/licensee of the object product in its manufacture and use and bring to it a competitive advantage. It can be further supported with privately maintained expert knowledge on the operation, maintenance, use/application of the object product and of its sale, usage or disposition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-how
The inherent proprietary value of know-how lies embedded in the legal protection afforded to trade secrets in general law, particularly, 'case law'.[3] Know-how, in short, is "private intellectual property". The 'trade secret law' varies from country to country, unlike the case for patents, trademarks and copyright where there are formal 'conventions' through which subscribing countries grant the same protection to the 'property' as the others; examples of which are the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under United Nations, a supportive organization designed "to encourage creative activity, [and] to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world".
It can be understood as part of IP, but it's not used in legal terms unless defined/specified. So if it's not defined separately in your text, I wouldn't use "know-how" theft.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/ipr/ipr
IPT:
It’s robbing people of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions—what’s called intellectual property—everything from trade secrets and proprietary products and parts to movies and music and software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-how
Definition of industrial know-how
Know-how can be defined as confidentially held, or better, 'closely held' information in the form of unpatented inventions, formulae, designs, drawings, procedures and methods, together with accumulated skills and experience in the hands of a licensor firm's professional personnel which could assist a transferee/licensee of the object product in its manufacture and use and bring to it a competitive advantage. It can be further supported with privately maintained expert knowledge on the operation, maintenance, use/application of the object product and of its sale, usage or disposition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-how
The inherent proprietary value of know-how lies embedded in the legal protection afforded to trade secrets in general law, particularly, 'case law'.[3] Know-how, in short, is "private intellectual property". The 'trade secret law' varies from country to country, unlike the case for patents, trademarks and copyright where there are formal 'conventions' through which subscribing countries grant the same protection to the 'property' as the others; examples of which are the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under United Nations, a supportive organization designed "to encourage creative activity, [and] to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world".
Discussion
On a separate note, the chosen wording is ambiguous: intellectual theft of property (a professor moonlighting as a cat burglar) or theft of IP?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
Re 'intellectual theft of property': This really is no excuse.
The inherent proprietary value of know-how lies embedded in the legal protection afforded to trade secrets in general law, particularly, 'case law'.[3] Know-how, in short, is "private intellectual property".