Intellectual Property Rights

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Ensuring Security with NDAs in a Post Non-Compete World

May 29, 2024
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This entry explains how combining a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with a strong information protection policy is now the best way to prevent former employees from sharing competition-sensitive information.  And, while others have pointed to NDAs as an alternative, they fail to identify the critical importance information protection policies play in this strategy. Most current employees…

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How AI Tools Could Compromise Intellectual Property Rights

March 1, 2024
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For close to 70 years, case law and regulatory enforcement have firmly established that in order to defend its intellectual property (IP) rights, an organization must demonstrate that it has appropriately protected the information from unauthorized and unnecessary access. In other words, courts and regulators decided long ago that they were not going to defend…

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