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Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Spring Cleaning and Tune-up for Your Trade Secret Portfolio: Eight Steps

Spring has arrived, and in addition to cleaning, it’s a good time to reassess how your company is handling its trade secrets. Far from being static, trade secret innovations, processes, and data evolve over time. Business...more

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Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Policies in the Workplace

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In recent years, many organizations have implemented new policies on artificial intelligence (AI) use to help prevent bias, plagiarism, or use of AI tools that produce inaccurate or misleading information. Meanwhile, many...more

Venable LLP

Understanding Trade Secret Laws and Assets

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For companies, maintaining a competitive advantage over the market is necessary for long-term growth. In many cases, this competitive advantage takes the form of a federal- or state-protected trade secret, such as a...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Protecting Trade Secrets: Tips for AI Companies

AI companies should familiarize themselves with trade secret law to safeguard their innovations. A company does not need to register a trade secret to invoke it in litigation, unlike other IP protections. Trade secrets can...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Insider Threats: The Overlooked Risks of Departing Employees and Sensitive Data Theft

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Insider threats continue to present a significant challenge for organizations of all sizes. One particularly concerning scenario involves employees who leave an organization and impermissibly take or download sensitive...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

3 Steps to Protect Highly Sensitive Assets in an M&A Deal

Due diligence is a necessary part of any M&A transaction. This process can be an exhaustive deep dive into the target company’s history. In some cases, the buyer wants to assure itself of certain highly confidential and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

AI in Drug Discovery: 2025 Outlook

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Looking forward to the 2025 prediction season, a survey of the emerging AI-powered drug discovery landscape has been making the rounds—and with good reason. The survey, summarized by Stanford’s Chris Bradbury, is likely the...more

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2023 Trade Secrets End of Year Report

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2023 was a banner year for trade secrets, non-competes, and other restrictive covenants. Employee non-competes continued to garner attention at the federal agency level, drawing commentary and action from the Federal Trade...more

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The FBI on Economic Espionage

Economic espionage sounds more like the stuff of a spy thriller than a day-to-day concern for business. Not so, as it turns out. To learn more we sat down with the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division Unit Chief Matthew Charles...more

Hogan Lovells

Trade Secrets Toolkit

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For trade secrets to be protectable, reasonable measures should be taken to guard their secrecy. Evolving legislation, new technologies, emerging cybersecurity threats, and agile workforces each present new challenges for...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Protecting Business Information Assets in the “Work From Home” Environment

This past March, many organizations were forced to suddenly pivot to a “work from home” environment (“WFH”) as COVID-19 spread across our country. However, many companies did not have the necessary technical infrastructure in...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Steps Your Company Should Consider Now to Protect Value with a Wave of Trade Secret Litigation on the Horizon Due to COVID-19...

The coronavirus pandemic has created profound changes to how many Americans do their work, with an outsized number now working from home. This arrangement, while necessary given social distancing requirements and the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Balancing Creativity With Exclusivity: How Companies Encourage Innovation While Protecting Intellectual Property

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On Friday, May 18, Eric Barton participated in a panel discussion at the 2018 ITechLaw World Technology Conference, updating attorneys from around the globe on the latest developments in cyber vulnerabilities and crime. In...more

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Why Your Company Should Be Using Email Enterprise Vaults, Anti-Deletion Programming and Key Stroke Surveillance Software in the...

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Twenty-five years ago most companies’ greatest fear of espionage was employee theft at the photocopy machine at 2 in the morning. The company playbook could not be forwarded in an email or put on a thumb drive in a matter of...more

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Guidebook: Cybersecurity in the Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices Industries

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As a life sciences or medical device company, it is mission critical to protect lab books, drug and clinical test data, product formulas and production processes that underlie your patents, trade secrets and know-how from...more

King & Spalding

Intellectual Property Newsletter - July - August 2015

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Protecting Trade Secrets in the Era of the Data Breach - The prevalence of data breaches cannot be ignored. New data breaches continue to occur one after an-other. In the first half of 2015 alone there were reports of...more

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