Carlton Fields helps clients protect trade secrets and defend against misappropriation claims.
Services include:
- Creating policies and procedures to protect trade secrets and confidential information
- Preparing non-compete agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-solicitation agreements, email and privacy policies, and incentive compensation agreements for corporate employees
- Advising employers on ways to avoid receiving trade secrets or confidential information when hiring employees from competitors
- Litigating claims for misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information, breach of fiduciary duty, raiding of employees, interference with business relationships or contracts, unfair competition, and related business torts
- Litigating claims to enforce or invalidate covenants not to compete; non-solicitation or confidentiality agreements
- Performing trade secret and confidential information audits
- Preparing outsourcing agreements and technology commercialization agreements with appropriate protections for trade secrets, confidential know-how, and other intellectual property
- Litigating related claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Advising on protection of confidential information during litigation