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Employees using free or unauthorized AI tools at work?

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 5/15/2025

The rise of artificial intelligence has brought both opportunities and challenges to the workplace. However, a growing trend of employees using free or unauthorized AI tools poses significant risks, from security breaches to...more

Preventing Trade Secret Theft: Proactive Strategies for In-House Counsel

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 5/6/2025

Ed. Note: This is the last in a series of articles taken from Gavin Parsons' CLE presentation for the North Carolina Bar Association's Antitrust and Complex Business Dispute CLE Program presented on Thursday, January 30,...more

[Podcast] Slings and Arrows: Trade Secret Trends Reflect a Need for Safeguards

BakerHostetler on 4/21/2025

Consider trade secret enforcement your armor on the battlefields of IP. Given greater exposure to cybersecurity breaches and data theft, a murky future for employee noncompete agreements, AI algorithms that challenge the...more

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

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. on 4/15/2025

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

How to Prevent Data Exfiltration and Protect Your IP – Q&A with Steve Davis

Purpose Legal on 4/9/2025

What exactly is data exfiltration, and why should organizations be concerned about it? Data exfiltration is the movement or migration of company-owned trade secrets or intellectual property outside of the enterprise. It...more

Proactive Steps for Protecting your Intellectual Property (IP) and Trade Secrets

Purpose Legal on 3/17/2025

We live in an era in which information is a valuable commodity. Access to data, ideas, and trade secrets is in high demand, particularly for individuals or companies seeking to profit from this information. One way they gain...more

Understanding Trade Secret Laws and Assets

Venable LLP on 2/17/2025

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

Navigating AI Risks: Balancing Innovation and Compliance in Your Enterprise

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP on 2/6/2025

As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize industries, businesses are facing increasing pressure to integrate AI solutions into their products and services to remain competitive. However, the adoption of AI...more

Protecting and Enforcing Your Trade Secrets in a Global Economy

Fish & Richardson on 1/23/2025

In the interconnected, global business environment, trade secret information regularly crosses international boundaries, and trade secret misappropriation can occur anywhere in the world. Trade secret holders should thus...more

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

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/21/2025

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

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

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP on 1/9/2025

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

Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

Mandelbaum Barrett PC on 11/18/2024

By 2027, the global cost of cybercrime, such as IP theft, is estimated to reach over $23 trillion (up from roughly $8 trillion in 2022), highlighting the critical need for strong IP protection. However, as technology evolves,...more

Guardians of the Goldmine: Building an Effective Confidentiality Program

Baker Donelson on 8/16/2024

On August 14, Judge Corrigan for the Middle District of Florida, in Properties of the Villages vs. FTC, found that the FTC did not have the authority to enter its planned Noncompete Rule, and entered an order granting an...more

More Critical Than Ever: Cyber Risk "Tabletop Exercises" in the AI Infused Workplace

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/8/2024

Since the dawn of digitalization, the collection and retention of personal and other business confidential data by employers has implicated security and privacy challenges—by amassing a treasure trove of data for bad actors...more

Protecting Your Business in a Digital World: Top 10 Questions for Internal Teams and Stakeholders

Benesch on 5/17/2023

The questions below are intended to help in-house counsel obtain the most important information related to technology projects so they can evaluate risks to the company’s data, intellectual property, and commercial interests,...more

Trade Secret Protection in the Remote Working World

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. on 4/14/2020

Out of necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic and related “stay-in-place” orders, many businesses have transitioned their workforce to work-from-home or similar remote working arrangements. The working world is making...more

Go West: Venture Financing and Business Expansion Projects in the United States - Practical Guidelines for German Technology...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/24/2018

As the U.S. and German tech ecosystems become more closely connected, raising capital in the U.S. market is becoming a strategic consideration for many fast-growing German tech companies. For some, establishing a presence in...more

A Cloud on the Horizon: Trade Secret Theft in the Cloud

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/29/2018

As cloud services have transformed modern business, they have also changed the way companies protect and enforce their trade secrets. Companies and their employees increasingly store data on cloud - based platforms. While...more

A New Month, A New Compliance Deadline In The European Union: What Businesses Need To Know About The EU Trade Secrets Directive

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 6/21/2018

Just days after the European Union’s widely-discussed new data privacy regulations, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), took effect on May 25, 2018, another EU-wide legal change quietly occurred. ...more

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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/23/2018

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

Trade Secrets and Cloud Services: Is the Sky the Limit?

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 5/5/2016

Germany is not only known as one of the best countries for enjoying beer and bratwurst, but it is also known as a country with some of the strictest data privacy laws on the planet. Within this environment, should companies...more

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