Sentences with phrase «as trade secrets»

Valuable information — both technological and commercial — can be protected and exploited as trade secrets if the appropriate safeguards are followed.

The confidentiality obligation which stems from the parties» agreement to arbitrate and not to divulge to third parties information which may be exchanged during the arbitration differs from the inherent confidentiality of some information, such as trade secrets.

These photos should not be considered as trade secrets, more just confidential information, however either way it was not an appropriate act.

«These photos should not be considered as trade secrets, more just confidential information,...» and»... but it was only a few photos of the interior that doesn't exactly constitute as trade secrets» are meaningless judgements of the value of photos; the determination of the value of the photos as trade secrets would be made by a jury when / if there is a prosecution under 18 USC 1832.

Valuable confidential business or professional information that does not otherwise qualify as trade secrets;

In a «hybrid» intellectual property license including patents and related IP assents with longer or no term, structuring royalties with a step down in effective rate upon patent expiration, but requiring the payment of a somewhat lower post-expiration royalty for related IP assets, such as trade secrets.

Broad litigation experience in major cases involving patents, including industrial and automotive chemicals, building products, and furniture and textile manufacturing, as well as trade secrets, software, copyright, trademarks and trade dress litigation.

Previously with Nixon Peabody, Mungovan focuses on litigation involving private investment funds and fund sponsors, as well as trade secrets litigation, government investigations, and other matters.

Many aspects of a business are routinely kept as trade secrets in a database, with little fanfare.

Some states and jurisdictions also include customer lists as trade secrets.

Understandably, it seems businesses are most concerned with the protection of customer data (51 %) and the loss of high - value assets, such as trade secrets, intellectual property and cash (28 %.)

ABN: When we first talked, you mentioned that artists might also need to protect other kinds of rights, such as trade secrets or patents.

As long as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others keep this information as trade secrets, we don't know what we're looking at.

They also can not see the numbers held as trade secrets by our major retailers including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

More concerning STILL is that companies are able to keep some chemicals a secret as trade secrets.

Most companies keep a lot of their work as trade secrets.

That's in part because the identity of the chemicals used by the gas industry for drilling and fracturing are protected as trade secrets, and because the EPA, based on an exemption passed under the 2005 Energy Policy Act, does not have authority to investigate the fracturing process under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

«In many cases the algorithms are held up as trade secrets, so there's a competitive advantage to remaining non-transparent.»

«If those ideas are enforced as trade secrets, [Alphabet self - driving subsidiary] Waymo could monopolize lidar,» Uber said in a filing last week.

THE OUTCOME: PepsiCo says the documents detailing the Pepsi formula are company property and should be protected as trade secrets, while the Ritchies argue it's their First Amendment right to disclose their father's papers.

Not all of Waymo «s 121 asserted trade secrets indeed qualify as trade secrets, he added.

Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adopted in most states, information counts as a trade secret if it meets three criteria: The information must have independent economic value to people outside the company, the information must be generally unknown and unlikely to be discovered by lawful means, and the owner of the secret must make efforts to maintain the secret.

From a legal perspective, you will need to consider whether it is better to protect a product under a patent or as a trade secret.

If you choose to protect your invention as a trade secret, the law will only protect your innovation against unlawful discovery.

The owner could have kept these recipes as a trade secret but is instead sharing them with the world.

Some of the controversial speculation surrounding breast milk jewelry is due to secrecy of the preservation process used by creators, it is regarded as a trade secret.

If there is no business reason for a patent, the invention might just be defined and kept as a trade secret.

The carrier must make a proper showing that confidentiality is necessary to avoid competitive harm and to avoid the disclosure of information that qualifies as trade secret or privileged or confidential information under 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(4).

Piers was invited to explain his methodology, but I don't think he has done that fully (critics would say «failed» to do so) presumably because he regards it as a trade secret.

Intellectual property counsel can advise on best practices, and whether a particular knowledge asset can qualify as a trade secret.

The information, process, formula, pattern, or other business information qualifies as a trade secret;

You have to treat the information as a secret in order for it to be recognized by a court and enforced as a trade secret — control it confidentially and restrict access to it.

Protection lasts only as long as the trade secret remains that way, but can last forever if nobody discloses the secret.

To allow an adequate time buffer for clients to scale, it is worthwhile taking a hard look at the relative advantages and disadvantages of protecting intellectual property as a trade secret as opposed to providing public disclosure to competitors by way of a patent filing.

Leaving aside the question of whether five years makes sense for a given user, putting a time limit on restrictions on disclosing or using confidential information wouldn't make sense for purposes of any confidential information that the disclosing party regards as a trade secret, as doing so could jeopardize its status as a trade secret.

The list includes practitioners from all major areas of IP legal work including trade mark, patent and copyright litigation, prosecution and portfolio management and advice as well as trade secret litigation.

I can talk for another three hours if we go into details of these factors but to make it short, if you would like to condense the above mentioned as key actions tech companies should take when protecting their invention, I would recommend key actions for making information intangible assets, which are documentation, classification, and proper measures to secure confidentiality of information, so as to make information qualified as trade secret and know - how protected by law.

FN4 AAR argues that notwithstanding the statute's explicit saving of contract claims, courts have stated that «common law claims» arising out of the same operative facts as a trade secret claims are preempted, and that contract claims are common law claims, so contract claims must be preempted.

While some may prefer the security and obscurity offered by treating an invention as a trade secret, the monopoly guaranteed by a patent is more attractive to others.

An important question often faced when a business has developed something new is whether to file a patent for the innovation or whether it should be maintained as a trade secret.

On the merits of the case, however, is it a constitutional right of a journalist to receive obviously stolen property, reverse engineer it despite knowing that the manufacturer's licence (to the legal owner...) prohibits it, and publish the results of what might well qualify as a trade secret, at least until the phones are sold on the aarket?

You shouldn't be able to get a patent while at the same time treating the process as a trade secret.

Not exact matches

As such, it guards its trade secrets.

Match Group requested «confidential and trade secret information» as part of the acquisition talks, but then used the information for its own gains; and

The former employer sued, but the court ruled that the information did not count as protected trade secrets because the company didn't take reasonable security measures to protect the information.

In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes.

The law treats trade secrets as property.

In messages to staff, tech companies sometimes conflate conversations employees are allowed to have, such as complaining about working conditions, with sharing trade secrets, said Chris Baker, an attorney with Baker Curtis and Schwartz, PC, who represents the fired Googler.

«On a general level, there can be practical barriers to pursuit of a criminal case, such as the victim company's fear of embarrassment, reputational damage, or the perceived risk — real or not — that their trade secrets will be exposed in a court proceeding,» said Brooke French, shareholder at law firm Carlton Fields.

The story was first reported by Trade Secret, which said Google initiated a meeting last year, then independently backed up by RBC, which also quoted sources as saying Durov's proposal was not to Google's liking.