Building a business comes with many layers. One of the most critical pieces of your company is the information that makes your products or services different. While your employees may not intend to disclose your trade secrets to your competitors, asking them to sign a...
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Trade Secrets
How can you keep your trade secrets safe when outsourcing?
Outsourcing certain aspects of your business has some benefits like cutting costs and increasing operational efficiency. However, it may come at a cost. For example, your trade secrets may be exposed to the outsourcing company, which may affect you if such information...
Is remote working putting trade secrets at risk?
It may have taken many years to establish your company and trade secrets could be fundamental to its success. Essentially, trade secrets are methods that cannot be easily replicated and are key to the profitability of your company. Thus, trade secrets are something...
More tips for keeping trade secrets safe
Not all business information qualifies to be referred to as a trade secret. To meet the threshold and thus be protected from misappropriation, three things need to be true: It needs to be secret, it needs to give your company a competitive advantage and you need to...
In Texas trade secrets lawsuits, can secrecy be protected?
Texas individuals and businesses who have trade secrets must do whatever they can to protect them. Since these can be inordinately valuable and take a significant amount of time and work to formulate, another person or entity that steals it should be held accountable....
Pitcher sues the Astros for alleged trade secret theft
The realm of intellectual property is more wide-ranging than many people realize, and individuals and businesses have been trying to push the boundaries even further over the last several years. That appears to be the case in a recently filed lawsuit initiated by a...
Managing trade secrets that need to be protected
Business executives have recognized the need to protect their practices, formulas or processes which are essential to their business. Senior executives, in recent polls, said that trade secrets are more important than other intellectual property such as patents and...
Tips for protecting trade secrets
Most businesses have trade secrets they wish to protect. For that reason, they should be familiar with different tips for protecting trade secrets. Tips for protecting trade secrets Different tips can help businesses better protect their trade secrets including:...
How can a new business protect its intellectual property?
New business ventures are often predicated on information that has value as long as it is not disclosed to competitors. The law offers many ways to protect intellectual property, but many of these methods are not suitable for newly established enterprises. This post...
How can businesses protect their trade secrets from publication?
Trade secrets can make or break Texas businesses. They can be the factors that distinguish new entities from their competitors and make certain products popular while similar products languish. When a business develops or acquires a profitable trade secret, they will...