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Trade Secret Practice

Cook Alex Trade Secret Practice realizes that for many companies trade secrets are their most valuable assets.  Therefore, our Firm's Trade Secret Practice is focused on counseling clients on preventative measures to ensure protection from unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of the trade secrets.

Cook Alex Trade Secret Practice provides the following services to the client:

  • Protecting
    • Counseling on protecting trade secrets
    • Drafting confidentiality agreements with employees, partners, suppliers, and customers
    • Auditing intellectual property portfolios for trade secret protection
      • Identify trade secrets
      • Evaluate and propose necessary procedures to ensure protection
    • Drafting trade secret licensing agreements
  • Enforcing & Defending
    • Counseling on enforcing and defending trade secret and litigation avoidance
    • Litigating trade secret misappropriation actions in federal and state courts including:
      • Actions for damages and injunctive relief
  • Maximizing
    • Counseling on maximizing the value of trade secrets
    • Monitoring competitors for the potential use of client's trade secrets
    • Providing training programs on securing and protecting trade secrets
      • Procedures for protecting trade secrets
      • Methods for detecting trade secrets theft
      • Proving trade secrets theft