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Who creates and owns ideas around Danville
Meggitt PLC announced on 2 September 2019 a 95,000 square foot expansion of its carbon brake manufacturing facility in the city, according to the company’s news release. The release says the facility already supplied braking components for several aircraft programs and was also to serve as a maintenance and repair hub. It is a 2019 announcement, and this page draws no conclusion from it about patents or other protection.
A second announcement concerns Chapin International, a maker of compressed air sprayers. In August 2021 the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development announced that the company planned to buy a 496,000 square foot building on the South Danville Bypass and create 100 jobs there. That is a plan announced in 2021, and nothing here says the building has opened.
Centre College is a liberal arts and sciences college at 600 West Walnut Street. Its 2026 about page describes roughly 1,400 students and 150 full time faculty. Questions about who owns student or faculty work belong with an attorney and with the college’s own policies.
Registering a business and a name in Kentucky
Anyone forming an LLC or a corporation in Kentucky goes through the Secretary of State’s Business Filings division in Frankfort. Most filings can be made online, and an annual report is due by June 30 each year. If the business trades under a name other than its exact legal name, it files a certificate of assumed name. An entity files that certificate with the Secretary of State and then files a stamped copy with the county clerk where its registered agent is located. An entity that has no registered agent and no principal office in Kentucky files only with the Secretary of State. A person doing business as an individual files with the county clerk of the county of the principal place of business and with no one else. The assumed name lasts five years and can be renewed in the six months before it ends. The Secretary of State says trade names are not registered at the state level in Kentucky.
Trademarks run through a different office. The Secretary of State’s Trademarks and Service Marks division in Frankfort registers a Kentucky trademark or service mark, provided the mark is already in use in Kentucky. A registration is effective for five years from the registration date and can be renewed for further five year terms by filing within six months before the term ends. It applies inside Kentucky alone. The Secretary of State says registration does not create rights, because those come from actual use, but it gives notice across the state and may help in court.
Courts, clocks and the basics
For the court, the Eastern District of Kentucky lists Boyle County under its Lexington docket (Central Division), and its pages give 101 Barr Street, Lexington, KY 40507 for it.
Kentucky has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act as KRS 365.880 to 365.900. A trade secret there is information such as a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique or process that gets independent economic value from not being generally known or readily ascertainable by proper means and is the subject of reasonable efforts to keep it secret. Three years is the window for a misappropriation claim, counted from when the misappropriation is discovered or should have been discovered with reasonable diligence, and a continuing misappropriation counts as one claim.
On noncompete agreements, Kentucky has a narrow statute on one kind: KRS 216.724 bars a health care services agency from restricting the job opportunities of its temporary direct care staff, including by noncompete clauses. An attorney should confirm how this applies to an agreement you have signed.
Local offices to know about
The Danville-Boyle County Development Corporation markets the community as Develop Danville. It describes itself as the lead economic development organization for Boyle County and lists its office at 105 East Walnut Street in Danville.
The City of Danville community development office at City Hall, 445 West Main Street, runs a Local Business Mentors program. The program matches new business owners with established local business leaders. A legal question about a name, a method or a creative work belongs with an attorney.
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Start with a conversation
Bring a short timeline to a first conversation: when you made, showed, sold or published the work and what agreements touch it. The Kentucky intellectual property attorneys page is the statewide starting point, and pages for Harrodsburg and Nicholasville are written for those towns. Readers elsewhere can use the intellectual property attorneys across the country page. To start, get matched with an intellectual property attorney.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which federal court list includes Boyle County?
The Eastern District of Kentucky lists Boyle County under its Lexington docket (Central Division), and its pages give 101 Barr Street, Lexington, KY 40507 for it.
Is there a program in Danville that pairs new owners with experienced ones?
The City of Danville community development office at City Hall, 445 West Main Street, runs a Local Business Mentors program that matches new business owners with established local business leaders. Questions about who owns a name or an invention are legal ones and belong with an attorney.
Who handles economic development for Boyle County?
The Danville-Boyle County Development Corporation, which markets the community as Develop Danville, describes itself as the lead economic development organization for Boyle County. It lists its office at 105 East Walnut Street in Danville.
What did the Chapin International announcement say about Danville?
In August 2021 the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development announced that Chapin International, a maker of compressed air sprayers, planned to buy a 496,000 square foot building on the South Danville Bypass and create 100 jobs there. It was a plan as of that date, and the announcement does not say the building has opened.
How is a business name handled in Kentucky?
The Secretary of State says trade names are not registered at the state level in Kentucky. A business using a name other than its exact legal name files a certificate of assumed name, which lasts five years and can be renewed in the six months before it ends. An entity files with the Secretary of State and then with the county clerk where its registered agent is located. An entity that has no registered agent and no principal office in Kentucky files only with the Secretary of State.
What is the time limit for a trade secret claim in Kentucky?
A claim for misappropriation must be brought within three years after the misappropriation is discovered or should have been discovered with reasonable diligence. A continuing misappropriation counts as one claim.
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