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Article: Protecting Trade Secrets at Trial.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 9, 2003
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By M. Kristi Wallace
Protecting your trade secrets is not simply a matter of making sure your employees do not sneak off with your intellectual property in their laptop computers or that your competitors are not stealing your assets. If your products are challenged at trial and you must file documents that are otherwise classified as trade secrets, you will have to engage in creative steps to protect those secrets in the "open courtroom."
Trade secrets generally consist of any formula, pattern, device, or compilation of information used in business that gives the owner an advantage, or the ability to gain an advantage, over competitors. A substantial ...