The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Reasonable Measures to Protect Trade Secrets: Lessons for Litigators and In-House Counsel" on May 30, 2019 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Kenneth Corsello of IBM, David Morrison of Goldberg Kohn, and Shannon Murphy of Winston & Strawn LLP will analyze specific cases where plaintiff companies could not point to specific protective steps they had taken to protect their trade secrets, and in which defendants prevailed via a motion to dismiss, summary judgment, or at trial. The panel will outline ways a company, in order to overcome threshold challenges to the assertion of trade secret theft claims, can articulate, with specificity, the measures it undertook to protect its trade secrets, such as:
• Differentiating protective measures for the alleged proprietary trade secrets from those imposed on other corporate information
• Showing optimal terms in a confidentiality agreement
• Having procedures to limit access for departing employees
The panel will discuss how these measures are weighed and/or required by courts.
The registration fee for the webinar is $135 (government and academic rates are available upon request). Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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