Article: Denver-Area Firms Fight Intellectual Property Theft.

By Tom McGhee, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 20--A former employee can sometimes pose a greater threat to a company than a wobbly market or a shaky economy.

Companies are finding that some employees collect more than unused vacation pay on their way out the door -- they take trade secrets, copyrighted software programs and other intellectual property.

The problem is widespread: Theft of proprietary information cost Fortune 1000 companies more than $45 billion in 1999, according to a study done by the American Society for Industrial Security and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

"The majority of a company's risk is ...

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