Laws exists to protect people from harmful situations, settle debates and clarify morally and ethically nebulous territory. Most of the laws that make our society run are crafted in good faith and are designed to address real-world problems. Some laws, however,...
Trade Secrets
How employers can avoid trade secret litigation
The subject of trade secret litigation may involve a business's most secretive business or technical details, which the firm considers essential to its success. Oftentimes, trade secret litigation involves a former employee who shares their company's confidential...
Trade secret litigation in San Francisco
Many business owners and employees can attest that trade secret litigation in California is not uncommon. There have been many cases where companies have sued former employees for starting their own businesses after stealing trade secrets. Whether you are an employee...
Significant ways of protecting trade secrets due to departing employees
Trade secrets are the lifeblood of many companies, and they include confidential information like procedures, processes, methods, formulas, business plans and internal marketing data. It is vital to protect this crucial information from competitors for sustainability...
Nondisclosure agreements in California
Most companies have valuable confidential information or trade secrets which they protect from being leaked to the public. In business transactions, companies receive and exchange private information with their customers or suppliers. To prevent unauthorized...
Epic Games and Fortnite are in the intellectual property news again
On Oct. 25, Epic Games sued a former employer for misappropriating a trade secret and breaching a nondisclosure agreement when he allegedly publicized information about a new season of the game before its Oct. 15 release, according to WRAL TechWire.The...
Recipe theft? Beer giant accuses another of stealing trade secrets
In March, MillerCoors sued Anheuser-Busch after AB’s prominent Bud Lite Super Bowl ad and billboard campaign highlighting that MC uses corn syrup in the brewing process for Miller Lite and Coors Light. MC accused AB of misleading the public into thinking...
To be a trade secret, its owner must take steps to protect it
At , in , we represent a variety of clients in trade secret matters. We regularly talk about trade secret issues in this space and today we take note of a recent Illinois case that provides an interesting analysis of the requirement that to...
Can a company claim its diversity data is a trade secret?
We have talked about trade secrets, a type of intellectual property that has no government process of registration like copyrights or trademarks. Yet, trade secrets can be highly valuable and important to the success of a business. A trade secret is specific...
The use of nondisclosure agreements in trade-secret protection
Our law firm regularly helps businesses, corporations and entrepreneurs to protect their trade secrets from exposure to and misappropriation by competitors. We have written in this space before about the importance of trade secrets to commercial success and stressed...