Business Advisory: Preventing Employee Trade Secret Misappropriation
11/1/2001
This advisory discusses what information constitutes a trade secret and how trade secrets can be protected by companies. Questions addressed include determining what a trade secret is, how to protect trade secrets, agreements that should be entered into to protect trade secrets from misappropriation by new employees and steps a company should take in order to protect trade secrets from misappropriation by departing employees. Also, addressed in this advisory are the steps a company should take to protect its trade secrets after an employee has departed from the company.
