Litigation Roots Provide Insight
Our attorneys’ litigation roots provide them with a deep insight from which they provide clients with practical and succinct advice on maintaining trade secrets and avoiding trade secret misuse and misappropriation claims. In this area, our efforts involve working with clients to identify confidential business information to be protected, and then developing practical mechanisms and protocols to be used to maintain its confidential status through agreements with employees, customers, vendors, and partners.
Protect Valuable Business Information
We are experienced in drafting and negotiating non-disclosure agreements and employee confidentiality agreements, and are similarly able to advise clients on the incorporation of technology-specific considerations in agreements calculated to prevent the loss of valuable business information. Conversely, we are able to advise clients on avoiding trade secret claims when developing new products and hiring from competitors.
Move Quickly to Resolve Claims
Trade secret claims are a core component of our IP litigation practice. As trade secret claims can often evolve quickly, our litigation attorneys are skilled at moving quickly in the injunctive stage of a case, often resolving matters at their earliest stages. Archer Norris has successfully defended and prosecuted claims of trade secret misuse and misappropriation, and incidental claims of unfair competition, in matters as varied as employee conversion of proprietary equipment, business processes, personnel lists and product formulae.