Trade Secrets
If you are a business owner, your success and livelihood can depend on how well your trade secrets are protected and kept confidential from your competitors. You need high-quality, conscientious and thorough legal counsel to help protect your trade secrets from unauthorized use by former employees or other businesses.
We can help.
Saper Law has extensive experience dealing with trade secrets from the counseling stage to the litigation stage. It is essential for a business to understand what its trade secrets are and how to protect them.
What is a "Trade Secret"?
A trade secret is information that is valuable to the owner as a secret, and therefore must be protected as such. If the owner’s competitors generally know or could easily discover the secret information, the owner could lose his competitive edge.
We assist our clients in protecting their trade secrets by:
- Identifying trade secrets
- Creating a trade secret protection program tailored to the client’s business.
- Drafting confidentiality agreements
- Drafting non-compete agreements
- Developing of policies for when a former employee leaves the business.
- Handling trade secret disputes and litigation.
Here are examples of recent cases involving trade secrets handled by the Saper Law Offices:
- Developed trade secret protection program for software company to ensure sufficient security measures to maintain trade secret protection for confidential information, computer programs, and internal processes.
- Successfully defended a web developer and website maintainer in state court against claims of trade secret misappropriation involving website design and customer lists.
- Represented software company in federal court in a dispute with a client and former employees over ownership of financial trading software. The lawsuit involved copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and other related claims.
Contact us today for a free, confidential consultation.
