PROTECT YOUR Trade SecretS

In today’s world of fast growing digital and global competition environment, I help companies fashion suitable methods to maintain confidentiality and protect their businesses’ trade secrets.

WHAT IS A TRADE SECRET?

Under both federal and state law, trade secrets are intellectual property rights on commercially valuable business, financial, and technical information that is not generally known outside of the owner's organization, -such as business processes, strategies, confidential know-how, scientific formulas, business pricing guidelines and customer information, among others; and that the owner makes reasonable efforts to keep it secret from its competitors.

trade secret PROTECTION

Trade secret protection extends beyond confidentiality agreements. I advise businesses on identifying sensitive information and establishing practical safeguards governing its access, use, disclosure and retention.

This may include internal confidentiality policies, employee and contractor protocols, onboarding and departure procedures, restricted-access practices, and controls for sharing proprietary information with vendors, licensees and business partners.

THE INTERNAL GUARDRAILS

  • TRADE SECRET IDENTIFICATION

  • INTERNAL CONFIDENTIALITY POLICIES

  • ACCESS & DISCLOSURE PROTOCOLS

  • EMPLOYEE / CONTRACTOR PROCEDURES

  • ONBOARDING & DEPARTURE PROTOCOLS

  • VENDOR AND BUSINESS PARTNER SAFEGUARDS

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