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Overview

Developing a trade secrets policy is an essential aspect of creating effective protection and providing the necessary platform for enforcement, if the need arises.

Our international cross-disciplinary team of trade secrets lawyers provide a seamless bundle of services meeting your needs for the protection of your sensitive business information - from the creation and implementation of trade secrets policies to global enforcement.

The success of any business depends on its ability to distinguish itself from the competition through the value or individuality of its ideas. Amid the frenetic pace of innovation in today's global economy, the protection of such ideas is as critical as ever. Indeed, trade secrets have become an executive-level priority for companies across all sectors.

A trade secrets strategy should be a critical part of any IP and business plan. It allows you to identify and develop valuable and confidential information relating to your business offering and effectively implement the policies and processes, and deploy the required resources, needed to maintain and extract value from it. Having a robust trade secrets policy also allows you to identify and enforce any misappropriation or misuse of those trade secrets.

Whether you are looking to protect your own trade secrets from being stolen, if your secrets have been misused or if someone else is bringing a trade secret claim against you, we can help guide you through trade secrets law around the world and across a number of key sectors. Our trade secrets lawyers will help you put a trade secrets policy at the heart of your organisation's overall IP strategy enabling you to fully profit from your innovations.

Trade secrets have become an increasing focal point in the innovation ecosystem. Businesses across sectors need to take a hard look at their existing trade secret management and protection policies. This includes adapting to evolving best practice and case law following implementation of the EU Trade Secrets Directive and Brexit, ensuring maximum protection for newly important assets: data and data analysis (such as AI).

A robust trade secrets strategy, enables your business to identify and manage your most valuable intangible assets and protect them from both internal and external threats of misappropriation . Our team of trade secrets lawyers in the UK will help you to create and implement the policies and processes needed to protect all forms of your IP.

We have a deep understanding of what it takes to protect your trade secrets, offering a tailored suite of services, including audits and advice, drafting of policies, NDA and other agreements, training of your teams, enforcement and crisis response – all supported by multi-disciplinary teams from across our full-service law firm.

Trade Secrets legal services

  • Contract management and employee agreements
  • Data privacy and cyber security
  • Employment
  • Intellectual property
  • NDAs and confidential agreements
  • Trade secret litigation, enforcement and recovery
  • Trade secrets policies, audits and training
  • Trade secrets transaction and licensing
  • Relationship management

Developing a trade secrets policy is an essential aspect of creating effective protection and providing the necessary platform for enforcement, if the need arises.

Our international cross-disciplinary team of trade secrets lawyers provide a seamless bundle of services meeting your needs for the protection of your sensitive business information - from the creation and implementation of trade secrets policies to global enforcement.

The success of any business depends on its ability to distinguish itself from the competition through the value or individuality of its ideas. Amid the frenetic pace of innovation in today's global economy, the protection of such ideas is as critical as ever. Indeed, trade secrets have become an executive-level priority for companies across all sectors.

A trade secrets strategy should be a critical part of any IP and business plan. It allows you to identify and develop valuable and confidential information relating to your business offering and effectively implement the policies and processes, and deploy the required resources, needed to maintain and extract value from it. Having a robust trade secrets policy also allows you to identify and enforce any misappropriation or misuse of those trade secrets.

Whether you are looking to protect your own trade secrets from being stolen, if your secrets have been misused or if someone else is bringing a trade secret claim against you, we can help guide you through trade secrets law around the world and across a number of key sectors. Our trade secrets lawyers will help you put a trade secrets policy at the heart of your organisation's overall IP strategy enabling you to fully profit from your innovations.

Trade secrets have become an increasing focal point in the innovation ecosystem. Businesses across sectors need to take a hard look at their existing trade secret management and protection policies. This includes adapting to evolving best practice and case law following implementation of the EU Trade Secrets Directive and Brexit, ensuring maximum protection for newly important assets: data and data analysis (such as AI).

A robust trade secrets strategy, enables your business to identify and manage your most valuable intangible assets and protect them from both internal and external threats of misappropriation . Our team of trade secrets lawyers in the UK will help you to create and implement the policies and processes needed to protect all forms of your IP.

We have a deep understanding of what it takes to protect your trade secrets, offering a tailored suite of services, including audits and advice, drafting of policies, NDA and other agreements, training of your teams, enforcement and crisis response – all supported by multi-disciplinary teams from across our full-service law firm.

Trade Secrets legal services

  • Contract management and employee agreements
  • Data privacy and cyber security
  • Employment
  • Intellectual property
  • NDAs and confidential agreements
  • Trade secret litigation, enforcement and recovery
  • Trade secrets policies, audits and training
  • Trade secrets transaction and licensing
  • Relationship management

Awards and recognition

The Legal 500 ranks our team in Band 1 for "Intellectual Property" in the West Midlands and Band 2 for "Intellectual Property: Patents (Contentious and Non-Contentious)" in London. Chambers and Partners ranks the team in Band 2 for "Intellectual Property" and "Patent Litigation" in London and Band 1 for "Intellectual Property" in National Leaders and Midlands.
IAM Patent 1000 regularly recognises our team in the litigation and transactions categories, as well as naming several of our lawyers as Leading Patent Professionals.

Key contacts

Huw Evans

Huw Evans

Partner

Head of Patent Litigation (UK)

London
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