Trade Secrets
Confidential information can be your business's main competitive advantage. Trade secrets protect more than just inventions or formulas. Trade secrets also protect client/customer lists, source lists, pricing lists, internal systems, financial information, and so forth.
Our Trade Secret Services
Our attorneys will make sure you have the employment, nondisclosure and other necessary agreements in place to maintain and protect the valuable trade secrets your business has built.
Nondisclosure Agreements
Well-drafted confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements are essential parts of establishing and maintaining trade secret protection with employees and third-parties.
Identifying Trade Secrets
Our experience can help you to identify trade secrets within your business, implement appropriate systems for maintaining those trade secrets, and to bring actions for theft and misappropriation of trade secrets by employees or third parties.
What is a trade secret?
Trade secrets are confidential proprietary information that provides a business with a competitive advantage or actual or potential economic benefit.
Frequently Asked Questions
We Answer Your Trade Secret Questions
A trade secret is something used in a company’s business that (a) is not known or readily accessible by competitors, (b) has commercial value or that provides a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and (c) the owner of the information protects from disclosure through reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy.
Trade secrets are not limited in time and may continue indefinitely so long as they are maintained as secrets.
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