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Trust, but Verify: The Power of Audits to Protect Your Competitive Edge as Non-Compete Ban Looms

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Corporate leaders concerned about protecting the recipe for their company's success have been following the fitful path of the FTC's rule banning non-competes. Lawsuits seeking to enjoin the rule were filed in multiple...more

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What the FTC’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements Means for Trade Secrets

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On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule that would ban the use of noncompete agreements in most employment contracts nationwide. Hailed by the Commission as a measure to promote competition,...more

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Navigating Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Corporate World: Striking the Right Balance

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Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has quickly emerged as a potentially transformative technology. In the corporate world, GenAI tools have the potential to help...more

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Navigating the AI Frontier: Legal and Operational Insights Into Generative AI

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In our ever-changing technological environment, artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to exert its influence on numerous sectors, revolutionizing our approach to work. As businesses and organizations worldwide adopt...more

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3 Strategies for BYOD Risk Mitigation with Departing Employees

Companies continue to adopt Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies to save money and relieve employees of the “two-phone burden.” However, such policies come with clear risks. Companies must remain particularly concerned when...more

Bailey & Glasser, LLP

Friend or Foe? Legal Risks Arising From ChatGPT and Other Generative AI Software

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Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have captured significant media attention. Developers argue that the technology, which learns from data to produce new text, visual, or audio content based on a...more

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Crafting a Comprehensive Trade Secret Strategy

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Despite the value trade secrets create for companies that hold them, they are often-overlooked intellectual property assets. But, unlike patents, trade secrets require their owners to take affirmative steps to maintain the...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

How to Protect Your Company’s Trade Secret

Given the dire consequences a company can face once its valuable trade secrets are disclosed to competitors, companies must increasingly take steps to protect their trade secrets in order to remain competitive....more

Blank Rome LLP

[Ongoing Program] Protecting Information from Insider Threats and External Hacker - February 22nd, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ET

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Join Us for Protecting Trade Secrets & Gaining a Competitive Edge in the Digital Age - Sophisticated Strategies to Protect Critical Assets When Key Employees Depart & Business Relationships Break Down - The protection...more

Epiq

[Webinar] What is insider risk, and why do companies ignore it? - November 16th, 12:00 pm AEDT

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What is insider risk? Managing and minimising risk in your organisation starts with understanding the types of risks in the modern workplace. Some risks are driven by external events and factors that are outside of direct...more

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[Webinar] What is insider risk, and why do companies ignore it? - October 7th, 11:30 am - 12:10 pm GMT

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What is insider risk? Managing and minimising risk in your organisation starts with understanding the types of risks in the modern workplace. Some risks are driven by external events and factors that are outside of direct...more

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Practical Advice for Protecting Trade Secrets

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What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - When people hear “intellectual property,” they often think first of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Trade secrets are a fourth type of intellectual property that are critical...more

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Delaware Court of Chancery: Companies Must Maintain Trade Secret Confidentiality in a Remote World

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In a recent decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery noted that a plaintiff-franchisor did not take adequate protections to safeguard the confidentiality of its purported trade secrets while using a remote audiovisual...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Keeping (Trade) Secrets Amid a Reduction in Force

With the US economy officially in a recession as of June and business closures continuing due to rising coronavirus infection rates, more companies may need to conduct layoffs in the coming months. Although discharging...more

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Tips for Trusting Teleworkers with Trade Secrets

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As more and more American workers are logging into their jobs remotely, many employers have been forced to enact teleworking policies on a massive scale. Some of these work-from-home policies may have been implemented in a...more

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Best Practices: HR Risk Management to Avoid IP Theft Liability

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Introduction - Any experienced lawyer who handles trade secrets litigation has seen what happens when an employer lets its guard down when hiring a new employee who previously worked in the same industry—perhaps even for a...more

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Security From Afar: How Best to Protect Trade Secrets in a World of Remote Working, Zoombombing, and Uncertainty

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Social distancing, a term which few of us had heard of before this year (despite the fact that it has been used since at least the early 2000s), is stretching into its third month....more

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Conducting Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Investigations Remotely

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One of the first things a company should do when it suspects that its trade secrets have been compromised or that an employee has violated post-employment restrictive covenants is to conduct an investigation. ...more

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Protecting Your Trade Secrets in the COVID-19 Environment

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In addition to the many complications, concerns and changes that working in the COVID-19 environment brings, it is important to evaluate the impact it plays on a company’s internal workings, one of which is a company’s trade...more

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Protecting Trade Secrets During Shelter-in-Place

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Given the number of employees and independent contractors working remotely, it is a good time for companies to reassess their trade secret policies and remind all personnel of their obligations to maintain and protect the...more

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What Constitutes a Litigation “Emergency” During a Worldwide Health Crisis?

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In the world of trade secret and restrictive covenant litigation, time is often of the essence. Clients need to take immediate steps to prevent the harm that flows from the misappropriation of confidential information....more

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EU: 5 tips to protect your trade secrets during the COVID-19 emergency

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While COVID-19 dramatically spreads across Europe, all companies are being forced to implement new large scale remote working arrangements. During these times of crisis, it’s easy for proprietary and confidential information...more

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Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Protecting Trade Secrets During a Pandemic

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Fear of the coronavirus is causing many employers to permit—or in some cases mandate—employees to work remotely. While this measure is designed to minimize the risk of virus transmission, it presents an altogether different...more

Troutman Pepper

Seven Steps to Address Trade Secret Misappropriation by Whistleblowers

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“The immunity provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act creates serious risk for companies: A whistleblower could expose a company to civil and criminal penalties stemming from the company’s alleged misconduct and...more

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Here’s What You Need To Know About Protecting Trade Secrets

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What do you do when a key employee leaves and you believe he/she has taken your company’s trade secrets to a competitor? Or when a strategic business partner uses your trade secret information to compete against you?...more

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