Safeguarding Your Competitive Edge
Our Trade Secrets team is a collaboration among our intellectual property, litigation, labor and employment and corporate practices, which come together to develop and implement cross-disciplinary creative strategies designed to protect innovation, preserve competitive advantage, limit or enable employee mobility and defend against competitive threats.
Our lawyers combine legal knowledge, industry insight and creative problem-solving to help clients protect and develop their most valuable assets.
We develop tailored strategies to prevent misappropriation, enforce rights and defend against claims that could disrupt operations. Our counseling and advice services include:
- Assessing trade secret versus patent protection
- Creating protection policies
- Conducting audits
- Counseling concerning competitive intelligence gathering
- Preparing NDAs
- Tailoring restrictive covenants pursuant to jurisdiction-specific laws
- Developing hiring strategies and negotiating agreements for the use, creation, licensing and ownership of confidential business information
- On-site training to prevent the release of sensitive information by government agencies
