Protecting Client Trade Secrets & Know How from Departing Employees Out of Stock
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About the Seminar - Computer Based Audio ONLY programs (No Video) - DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR CLE BIG TICKET
The value of many businesses consists not in tangible assets but in the services they provide - what they do and how they do it. Trade secrets can consist of everything from business and financial plans and models to bids for new business, vendor lists, and processes and designs. Trade secrets are not merely mechanical designs or plans. Rather, trade secret law encompass much the know how that businesses have developed slowly over time and is the essence of their value. In service-based businesses, trade secret protection is of surpassing importance. This program will discuss the various forms of trade secrets, threats to their protection in the workplace, fundamental techniques and plans to protect them from loss, and strategies for not losing their value to departing employees.
-Practical strategies for protecting trade secrets, know-how, and confidential information from departing employees
-Understanding what's protectable and what's not - and how to protect each category of secret
-Establishing multiple layers of protections from policies and practices to agreements
-Labeling information as confidential, restricting and tracing access, maintaining records
-Use of non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements
-What to do when an employee departs - exit interviews and more - and what to do when a disclosure occurs
About the Speaker
James Pooley, an attorney in Silicon Valley, is one of the world's foremost experts in trade secret law and management. His legal treatise, Trade Secrets, updated semi-annually, is the leading lawyer's desk reference on the subject. He has more than four decades experience as an intellectual property advisor, and information security expert. He has secured as president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and chairman of the Selection Board of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He formerly served as Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, where he was responsible for the international patent system. In 2016, Mr. Pooley was named to the IP Hall of Fame. His latest business book is Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage (Verus Press, 2015). Mr. Pooley received his B.A. cum laude from Lafayette College and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 Employment & Labor Law Specialty Credit Hour
This seminar is an Intermediate level program.
Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2020, please use this course code: 201769ADT
Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2021, please use this course code: 213358ADT
Tags Employment/Labor