An Inventor's Trade Secrets - "Trade secrets" is the legal term for confidential business information. An inventor's research and development needs to be protected at the very earliest of stages as a trade secret.
Publisher: Patent Cafe Magazine     Author: N. Paul Friederichs   

Culprits in Your Cubicles? - When safeguarding your trade secrets, don't forget the danger within.
Publisher: Business 2.0     Author: Matt Yarbrough   

Inevitable Disclosure of Trade Secrets as an alternative to the Non-Compete Contract - Lawsuits filed by employers seeking to prevent valued employees from leaving to work for competitors have become increasingly frequent over the last few years. (PDF Format)
Publisher: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati     Author: James A. DiBoise, David J. Berger   

Inevitable Disclosure: Sharpening the Double-Edge Sword of Trade Secret Law - Savvy businesspeople know that success in the marketplace often hinges on one's ability to maintain the confidentiality of key proprietary information.
Publisher: Cooley Godward LLP     Author: Anthony M. Stiegler; Raquel M. Prieguez   

Intellectual Capital and the Mobile Executive - Remember when Lee Iacocca left Ford to join Chrysler? No lawsuit. Nobody even batted an eyelash, even though he knew all of Ford's marketing strategies and secret designs. Times have changed since then...
Publisher: Fish & Richardson P.C.     Author: Fish & Richardson P.C.   

Protect Your Trade Secrets: Know Your Rights When an Employee Leaves - This article addresses the legal issues involved in protecting trade secrets, and it identifies steps you can take to protect your company from losing confidential and proprietary information when an employee leaves to join a competitor or to start a competing business.
Publisher: Graziadio Business Report     Author: Keith M. Gregory and Stephen J. Baumgartner   

Protecting the Private Inventor Under the Peacetime Provisions of the Invention Secrecy Act - Whether the invention secrecy doctrine, which was created specifically in response to the threat of war, can be applied to authorize secrecy orders during a time of peace.
Publisher: Berkeley Technology Law Journal     Author: Sabing H. Lee   

Protecting Your Trade Secrets - A Guide To Preserving Intellectual Capital - A trade secret can be any useful information that is not generally known. A popular definition is "anything you don't want the competition to know."
Publisher: Fish & Richardson P.C.     Author: Fish & Richardson P.C.   

Steal trade secrets, go to jail - As two recent cases show, stealing confidential information doesn't lead to secure futures but to fines and jail.
Publisher: Fair Measures     Author: Julie Crane   

The Economic Espionage Act of 1996: The Theft of Trade Secrets is Now a Federal Crime - On October 11, 1996, President Clinton signed "The Economic Espionage Act of 1996" into law. The theft of trade secrets is now a federal criminal offense.
Publisher: The Trade Secrets Home Page     Author: R. Mark Halligan, Esq.