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Protecting Trade Secrets in the Life Sciences Industry: 8 Steps to Prevent Corporate Espionage and Theft

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Protecting trade secrets in any business is critical, but the stakes are higher in life sciences. Given the high focus on innovation in the industry, corporate espionage can result in devastating financial and reputational...more

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

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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

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Concerns Related to DeepSeek’s Training Techniques May Focus on IP Issues

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AT A GLANCE - Beyond whether DeepSeek used data from existing AI application program interfaces (APIs) to train its models lie concerns about whether querying an AI API may lead to trade secret misappropriation....more

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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

Epstein Becker & Green

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

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

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

The Pros And Cons Of Protecting AI As Trade Secrets

Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more

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Trade Secrets and Generative AI: Protective Measures In an Evolving Technological Landscape

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In Short - The Background: In recent months, artificial intelligence ("AI") platforms have taken the world by storm, introducing new, powerful tools for generating original and useful content based on training data and user...more

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Collision at the Intersection of Construction and Intellectual Property Law: Are You Protecting Your Firm's Trade Secrets?

The construction industry is full of valuable business information including customer lists, pricing information, project budgets, and more. The value of such information may be lost if it becomes known to a competitor or the...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Proper Hygiene Matters: Three Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection Challenges and Solutions

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Editor’s Note: HaystackID hosted an educational webcast on March 15, 2023, to discuss the growing importance of cyber and data hygiene in the context of privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection. The webcast focused on how...more

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6 Proactive Tips to Address Employee Defection Concerns Before a Crisis Unfolds

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It is often said that the best defense is a good offense. That is certainly true if you are an employer conducting a risk assessment of potential employee defections that could expose your company to losses of valuable...more

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Forecast: March 2022 Edition

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Welcome to FP Forecast, a monthly outlook featuring Fisher Phillips thought leaders providing their insights into what employers can expect in 2022 and beyond. By following along each month, you’ll be in the best position to...more

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[Ongoing Program] Protecting Information from Insider Threats and External Hacker - February 22nd, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ET

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Join Us for Protecting Trade Secrets & Gaining a Competitive Edge in the Digital Age - Sophisticated Strategies to Protect Critical Assets When Key Employees Depart & Business Relationships Break Down - The protection...more

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Companies Can Protect Proprietary Data When Responding to CCPA Privacy Requests

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Since its passage almost three years ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has offered California-based consumers certain rights over the personal information companies collect and process about them. While...more

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New Federal Tools Can Help Private Sector Protect Trade Secrets From Cyberattacks – And May Soon Require Reporting

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Cybersecurity was undoubtably on the forefront of the agenda for many organizations in 2020 – and 2021 should be no different. The rapid shift to remote work over the past year has led to an increased number of cybersecurity...more

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The Tools Used in Modern Business---Such As Videoconferencing---and the Social Media Culture Create Real Challenges to Protecting...

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In the past decade, the prevalence of videoconferencing, social media, and other technological platforms have flooded college dorm rooms and boardroom meetings alike. The ubiquity of these technologies is unavoidable, and...more

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Trade Secret Protection With A Remote Workforce: 7 Practical Considerations for Employers

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The COVID-19 remote work era is now in its tenth month, and employees continue to work away from the physical office, without in-person supervision, and perhaps outside of the company network. During this time, many employees...more

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On-Demand Webinar | Protecting Information in a Work-From-Home World

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Each month, Nossaman's complimentary Employment BUZZ webinar series covers a different topic of interest to employers, including tax, insurance, intellectual property and employment issues. These "quick hit" 30-minute...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Electric Fence: Protecting Proprietary Rights in Collected Energy Data

Like companies in other industries, a growing number of modern energy-related companies are focusing their efforts on data collection and analysis. For example, Enphase – an energy technology company – regularly tracks data...more

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Will Supreme Court Enforce Law And Order In The Digital Workplace?

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Now entering its ninth month in the United States with no sign of slowing down, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employers to make permanent changes to business operations in order to survive. Among the most noticeable...more

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Theft of U.S. Companies’ IP Assets and Other National Security Issues Involving Foreign Governments and Foreign-Controlled...

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Federal authorities have recently described the threat of economic espionage from foreign entities as one of the greatest threats to the economic vitality of the United States, and this has led to an increase in...more

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[Webinar] Primers for Pandemic Litigation Update - Critical Assets at Risk: Protecting Data Privacy and Trade Secrets during...

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With the COVID-19 related increase in remote work, anxious employees are being increasingly targeted by cyber criminals and hackers with phishing scams, business e-mail compromise schemes, and malicious ransomware. At the...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2018

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In This Issue - Gender Diversity in Patenting: Current Landscape and Recommendations - The gender gap in patenting is a current challenge that companies face. While this issue seems pervasive, companies and lawyers can...more

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Vulnerable Vendors: Automakers’ Data Breach Highlights Importance of Vendor Cybersecurity

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This summer, several automakers, including Tesla, Toyota, General Motors, Ford, and Volkswagen learned that their closely held trade secrets were readily available on the internet. The source? An unprotected back-up server....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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Combatting Corporate Espionage In The Digital Age

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In the modern age of relatively cheap and ever-evolving technology, corporate espionage is a real threat that could be perpetrated by any employee or other insider at any time. The term “corporate espionage” covers many...more

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