Comprehensive Guide on Trade Secrets Protection: Tips and Strategies Explored
Overview:
As technological advancement continues to reshape businesses worldwide, protecting trade secrets against risks and legal pitfalls have increasingly become an intricate challenge for companies. To maximize effort in protecting trade secrets, most companies use Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) in order to protect confidential information from embezzlement.
However, such method may also incite complicated risk. Therefore, companies must remain proactive in analyzing and developing other effective and efficient strategic approach in protecting trade secrets to avoid complex and costly trade secret litigation.
In this LIVE Webcast, a seasoned panel of thought leaders and professionals brought together by The Knowledge Group will provide and present to the audience a comprehensive guide in protecting a company’s trade secrets. Speakers will also provide practical tips and best strategies in maximizing trade secrets protection.
Some of the major topics that will be covered in this course are:
- Trade Secret in the 2019 Landscape
- Recent Trends and Developments
- Notable Court Rulings
- Opportunities and Challenges
- Practical Tips and Best Strategies
- What Lies Ahead
Agenda:
SEGMENT 1:
Michael King, Managing Partner
Hennelly & Grossfeld LLP
- Recent trends and cases
- Criminal implications
- Race to the courthouse
- Litigation options
- State, federal, criminal
- Less-expensive, contract-only claim
SEGMENT 2:
John A. Stone, Partner
Decotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP
- What is a trade secret
- Common law
- DTSA
- UTSA
- Keep Your Trade Secrets Secret
- Courts’ rulings on what efforts are sufficient to maintain trade secrecy
- Interim Remedies
- TRO’s
- Preservation Orders
- Seizure
- Injunctions
SEGMENT 3:
Charles S. Welcome, Associate
Spolzino Smith Buss & Jacobs LLP
- Protecting Trade Secrets During Litigation
- Risk of dismissal for insufficiently alleging existence of trade secrets
- Protective Orders/“Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Designations (including “intermediate” protections that allow for client representative or expert review)
- Filing under seal
- The Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine
- Using the inevitable disclosure doctrine to protect trade secrets
- New York treatment of inevitable disclosure doctrine
- Federal law à Defend Trade Secrets Act
- Effect as constructive restrictive covenant
- Using the inevitable disclosure doctrine to protect trade secrets
- Differences Between Federal and State Court
- DTSA v. UTSA
- Procedural differences
- Substantive overlap
SEGMENT 4:
Abraham Skoff, Partner
Moses & Singer LLP
- Damages and other remedies.
Who Should Attend:
- Trade Secret Lawyers and Consultants
- Corporate Lawyers
- Human Resource Personnel
John Stone is a partner in DeCotiis’ New Jersey and New York offices. Mr. Stone’s practice focuses on complex business …
Charles S. Welcome has broad experience in a wide range of civil litigation matters, including shareholder derivative actions, securities litigation, …
Michael King is the Managing Partner of Hennelly & Grossfeld LLP and has been with the firm for 25 years. …
Abraham Y. (Avi) Skoff is Co-chair of Moses & Singer's Litigation practice and has over twenty-five years’ experience in practicing …
Course Level:
Intermediate
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method of Presentation:
On-demand Webcast (CLE)
Prerequisite:
General knowledge of trade secrets laws
Course Code:
148748
NY Category of CLE Credit:
Areas of Professional Practice
Total Credits:
2.0 CLE
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SPEAKERS' FIRMS:
About Decotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP
DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP (http://www.decotiislaw.com/), is a seventy-attorney, full service firm in New Jersey and New York, representing private commercial, and public sector clients.
Website: http://www.decotiislaw.com/
About Spolzino Smith Buss & Jacobs LLP
Spolzino Smith Buss & Jacobs, LLP offers its clients quality legal services in an efficient and professional manner. The firm’s AV rating in Martindale-Hubbell is the highest possible rating for legal services and legal ethics. Spolzino Smith Buss & Jacobs, LLP represents a large and prestigious client base of developers, condominiums, cooperatives, community associations, municipal and educational institutions, businesses and high profile individuals. Our mission is to provide each client with exemplary service and special attention.
Website: https://www.ssbjlaw.com/
About Hennelly & Grossfeld LLP
Hennelly & Grossfeld LLP is an AV-rated law firm founded in 1993 by trial lawyers to provide responsive, cost-effective representation in all aspects of business litigation. The firm’s attorneys have extensive trial and appellate experience, with particular depth in matters involving unfair competition, trade secrets, employment, product liability, and real estate and title insurance.
Our attorneys can and do try cases to verdict. Our substantial trial experience permits us to assess more accurately a case’s value and determine how to obtain the best result, whether by verdict or settlement. The firm’s focus is on communicating with our clients to achieve outcomes that will serve each client’s specific business goals, efficiently and cost-effectively.
Website: https://www.hennellygrossfeld.com/
About Moses & Singer LLP
Moses & Singer has a reputation for cutting edge, hands-on representation, integrity and the highest quality legal work, established over the many years since the firm was founded by Henry Moses and Henry Singer in 1919, to serve both Public National Bank and their private clients. The firm has played a central role in landmark cases and major transactions ever since, and is known for skill, creativity and aggressiveness, in representing banks, institutions and corporations, closely held businesses, start-ups, entrepreneurs, individuals and families, in a wide range of industries, transactions, disputes and counseling. Moses & Singer is known for providing the close attention and direct involvement of its key partners to client matters, which can result in cost effective, result-oriented representation, and aggressive, highly effective, focused problem solving and legal representation.
Website: https://www.mosessinger.com/