Risk Management, Non-Disclosure Agreement, Intellectual Property Protection

5 Key Takeaways | Protecting Your IP When People are Coming and Going

Kilpatrick on 5/12/2025

Kilpatrick’s Katie Barton, Nena Bains, and Destiny Williams recently presented a webinar in partnership with the Association of Corporate Council on the topic of “Protecting Your IP When People are Coming and Going.”...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

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

Protecting IP During Joint Development Projects: Agree on More than Non-Disclosure

Pillsbury - Propel on 6/20/2024

As industry and markets have progressed, the technology they create has seen a commensurate increase in complexity. In practice, this results in the hyper-specialization of businesses so that they may continue to innovate at...more

Crafting a Comprehensive Trade Secret Strategy

Fish & Richardson on 4/29/2022

Despite the value trade secrets create for companies that hold them, they are often-overlooked intellectual property assets. But, unlike patents, trade secrets require their owners to take affirmative steps to maintain the...more

Benefits of and Best Practices for Protecting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Inventions as Trade Secrets

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 2/11/2022

We previously discussed which portions of an artificial intelligence/machine-learning (“AI/ML”) platform can be patented. Under what circumstances, however, is it best to keep at least a portion of the platform a trade...more

Delaware Court of Chancery: Companies Must Maintain Trade Secret Confidentiality in a Remote World

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/31/2020

In a recent decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery noted that a plaintiff-franchisor did not take adequate protections to safeguard the confidentiality of its purported trade secrets while using a remote audiovisual...more

Trade Secrets 101: If You Want To Call Something a Trade Secret, You Have To Take Steps To Protect It

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 12/10/2019

Courts have long held that, in order for something to be considered a “trade secret,” a business owner has to actually make efforts to keep the supposed trade secret a secret. It stands to reason that if no efforts are made...more

Contractors – Protect Your Confidential Information from Wrongful Disclosure

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP on 5/20/2019

Unit pricing and other confidential information contained within your bid documents may be recognized as a trade secret under Ohio’s Uniform Trade Secret Act and similar federal laws. What does that mean? In simple terms, it...more

Do You Know What Your Employees Are Talking About In Public? How To Avoid The Inadvertent Disclosure of Your Company’s...

Cozen O'Connor on 9/26/2018

Most companies take extensive steps in on-boarding a newly hired employee about the employers’ confidential information and non-disclosure policies. Often times, employers will have the new employee sign a non-disclosure...more

"Purloined Letters": Management Options When a Departing Employee Puts a Business Entity at Risk by Collecting Confidential...

Littler on 5/15/2018

The following scenario is more common—and more troubling—than ever before. A high ranking employee who has signed an agreement to preserve the confidentiality of business plans, financial information, and trade secrets...more

The Defend Trade Secrets Act: Five Key Lessons

Pierce Atwood LLP on 4/10/2018

Courts will refuse to grant trade secret protection under the Defend Trade Secret Act (DTSA) when an employer has not taken certain basic precautions to create and maintain the secrecy of the subject information. ...more

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