Trade secrets

Trade Secrets can include any information that has commercial value that is kept secret by a business. The information must not otherwise be available to competitors. Trade Secrets can include unpatented inventions, software, patterns, designs, production devices, formulas, recipes, techniques, processes, customer lists, marketing information, and other business information. Among other things, Trade Secrecy depends on reasonable, diligent measures to guard the secrecy of the information.

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Trade secret analysis

Infringement / validity opinions

Confidentiality / non-disclosure agreements

Having a non-disclosure agreement in place can help prevent disclosure of trade secret and other information, and can allow an entity to retain control over access to the information when disclosure is required for development or manufacturing purposes. Minimally, every employee of an organization, every supplier that requires access to the information, and every business partner should be required to sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement.

License agreements