Discuss (c) trade secret

2.1.1 Patent Meaning and nature: the INVENTION's exclusive right (the limited-term monopoly in exchange for the disclosure); the patentability's trio — the NOVELTY (the new-in-the-world), the INVENTIVE STEP (the non-obvious craft), the INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY (the useful's test); the product-and- process faces. Term and ownership (Nepal): the inventor's default (the employer's-and-service allocation by contract/statute); the PDT Act 2022's term: 7 years from registration, renewable up to two times (up to 21 years total) — beside the TRIPS floor of twenty years from filing (the mismatch the reform debates note); the renewal's discipline (the 35-day renewal window). Acquisition: the first-to-file system (the application → the Department of Industry's examination → the publication (the Nepal Gazette) → the registration; the opposition's faces); the convention priority (the Paris filing's 12-month window). Infringement: the unlicensed making- using-selling-importing of the patented invention (the process patent's burden craft). Remedies: the civil (injunction + damages/accounts); the criminal (the Act's fines); the administrative (the cancellation). 2.1.2 Trademark, Service Marks Meaning and nature: the source's identifier (the word-symbol-image combination distinguishing the goods/services); the service mark (the services' mark — the same craft). Acquisition: the REGISTRATION system (the application → examination → publication → opposition → registration at the Department of Industry); the term: 7 years from registration, renewable indefinitely (the potentially perpetual mark — the patent's fixed-term contrast); the unregistered…