“An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful before all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.” ― Henry Ward Beecher Tidelands can include those lands between the low and high tide lines, the so-called, “intertidal lands,” and lands beyond the low tide line, or “sub-tidal lands”. These are pretty general definitions, by the way. Any discussion of tidelands ge

“If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery - I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.” ― Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard Knowing - that’s what intellectual property (“IP”) is all about. IP, a term that gets a lot of play these days, refers to creations of the mind, manifested in software, books, inventions, designs of all kinds, plays, movies, and mo