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Protecting Your Trade Secrets in the US

May 14, 2015May 25, 2016 Mike Burke Intellectual Property, Nondisclosure Agreements, Smart Exporting doing business in the united states, intellectual property, ireland doing business in the united states, ireland export, ireland exporter, ireland us affiliate, NDAs, northern ireland doing business in the united states, northern ireland export, northern ireland exporter, northern ireland us affiliate, risk mitigation, Smart Exporting, trade secrets, US affiliate

Remember earlier posts about non-disclosure agreements, and the role they play in defining and protecting trade secrets? Of course you do—but in case you don’t, one of them is here. I even drafted a brief two-page outline for NDAs, here.

The macro point of those posts, at least as to protecting trade secrets, is that in the US, a trade secrets owner must take all “reasonably available steps” to protect their trade secrets. In an unpublished opinion filed on May 8, 2015, the US Court of Continue reading →

Protect Your IP (Really)

January 13, 2015May 25, 2016 Mike Burke Intellectual Property, Nondisclosure Agreements counterfeiting, intellectual property, ireland doing business in the united states, ireland export, ireland exporter, ireland us affiliate, NDAs, northern ireland doing business in the united states, northern ireland export, northern ireland exporter, northern ireland us affiliate, risk mitigation, Smart Exporting, trademarks, US affiliate

Every now and then, a non-US company will contact me after they have started US operations…but have not protected their intellectual property here. In some cases, the company does not have a full picture of what they have or where they could/should protect it—they have not audited what they have. Continue reading →

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