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What is a trade secret and why you you protect them? Technology has made trade secret theft even easier and more prevalent. In fact, businesses lose billions of dollars every year due to trade secret theft committed by employees, competitors, and even foreign governments. But what is a trade secret? And how do you protect […]

A recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals highlights the importance of carefully drafting trade secret licenses… A recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals highlights the importance of carefully drafting trade secret licenses. As the plaintiff discovered, if you fail to properly restrict further disclosure of your trade secret to […]

Zoom calls have become one of the most frequent ways to conduct business during the COVID-19 pandemic... Zoom calls have become one of the most common ways to conduct business during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, businesses must ensure that they are taking the proper steps to safeguard their confidential data, including trade secrets, when using […]

Trade secrets represent one of the most commonly misappropriated types of intellectual property… While it may not be a super-secret recipe like Coca-Cola, which has been kept secret by the Coca-Cola Company since 1891, most businesses have valuable information that they want to safeguard from their competition. Examples include proprietary computer code, manufacturing processes, databases, […]

Will the Defend Trade Secrets Act Protect Your Business? Earlier this week, the President signed into law the Defend Trade Secret Acts (DTSA). The federal legislation is good news for Monmouth County businesses because it will give them one more tool to combat intellectual property theft. According to the Director of the U.S. Patent and […]

The key to maintaining a trade secret is keeping the information confidential. So what happens when documents containing trade secrets are inadvertently uploaded to a court’s e-filing system? A New York business recently learned the hard way, nearly losing its valuable trade secret protection. HMS Holdings Corp. E-Filing Trouble As detailed in court documents, Plaintiff […]