Trade Secrets & Non-Disclosure Agreements

Davis, Agnor, Rapaport & Skalny has extensive experience structuring transactions to ensure that copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks and other intellectual property assets are protected. Preservation of intellectual property can be critical to a company’s success, because confidential business methods, proprietary manufacturing processes, employee know-how, custom software, sales information, marketing data, and other confidential business information are often among a company’s most valuable assets. For this reason, the unauthorized disclosure of valuable proprietary information must be discouraged by all appropriate legal means. We advise clients on ways to protect their intellectual property through well-constructed trade secret protection programs, and through non-disclosure agreements with employees and contractors.

We assist our clients in designing and implementing effective information security programs and policies to prevent intentional or inadvertent loss of confidential information. We also prepare non-disclosure agreements to complement and support our clients’ intellectual property protection strategies. These programs and agreements advance our clients’ business objectives, and are designed to head off disputes before they arise.

When disputes cannot be avoided, we guide our clients through the process of litigating, arbitrating or mediating controversies arising from disclosure of trade secrets, or from breach of non-disclosure agreements.