The Trade Secrets Group takes a global approach to protecting your trade secret information to ensure that your business is comprehensively protected from trade secret theft and unfair competition. This includes developing best practices for protecting trade secret information, training employees and managers about the importance of trade secret protection, and bringing enforcement actions to recover stolen trade secret information.
Advice, Policy Development and Training
Your company’s trade secret and confidential information is critical to your success and maintaining your competitive advantage. Consequently, it is important to affirmatively adopt policies, procedures and contracts that identify and protect your confidential information before someone misuses it. Our team works with your company to develop industry-specific procedures and policies focused on the specific threats and competition your business faces.
We know that departing employees, third parties with access to your critical information, and foreign governments can pose a significant risk of trade secret theft. We draft confidentiality, non-disclosure and assignment of inventions agreements, as well as non-compete and non-solicitation agreements designed to protect against unfair competition and trade secret theft, and we advise businesses on managing the risks associated with terminated or departing employees.
Litigation
When a former employee or competitor is using confidential information or stealing your trade secrets, immediate action is needed. Our trade secret litigation team has extensive experience seeking and defending temporary restraining orders and injunctions relating to use of confidential and trade secret information by former employees and competitors. We aggressively litigate to ensure that your business is protected.
