Trade Secrets and How to Manage the Enemy Within.
Trade secrets are the most valuable, coveted yet risky assets within your business. Your people pose the greatest threat to your trade secrets but also offer the best defence! Most
Information Flows to The Highest Bidder. How About Yours?
A US Federal Reserve official leaked trade secrets while being paid US$450,000 to ‘teach’ at a Chinese university. This is the allegation by US prosecutors. John Rogers shared
How Do You Prefer Your Secrets? Raided or Traded?
The most valuable IP in your business is highly likely to be your trade secrets. A stark reality faces you and that is if you are not actively managing these assets they are probab
How Do You Protect Your Innovation in Partnerships?
The human species survived because we could communicate and share ideas about what worked and what did not. How to light a fire using flints and tinder, how best to catch a woolly
$605M for Trade Secret Theft of ‘Innovative Approach to Selling Renewable Fuels’
The jury also found that the trade secret theft was willful and malicious, allowing the Court to potentially triple the total damages! Choose your partners carefully. You are flatt
Information Floods Out Of Your Business After An NDA
‘We have an NDA so it is fine we can share everything’! How much value is being lost from your business via sensitive information and knowledge being shared with partners with
As The Law Changes On Non-Competes What Protects Your Confidential Information?
Post-Termination Restrictive Covenants Are Not Immune From Government Interference. Governments around the world including the UK, US, and European governments are reviewing post-t
To Lose Three Trade Secrets Looks Like Carelessness!
Employee joins another company, transfers valuable knowledge to develop competing products! AbbVie has at least three trade secrets law suits like this underway at the moment: R
You Might Have A Patent But Do You Know The Trade Secrets That Sit Within The Patent?
THE MOST IMPORTANT STUFF IS NOT IN THE PATENT It is held in the head of the operator. This is the know-how that makes the system work at all times. It may be the 30 year veteran wh
