Intellectual Property

Materials and forms help provide practical and cost-effective advice on protecting company information. Topics include an overview of trade secrets and how they can be protected, antitrust aspects, employment contracts, handling unsolicited idea submissions, the criminal aspects of trade secret theft, the OSHA Hazard Communication Rule, trade secrets in the community as well as forms and checklists.

Get information about definitions, protection, and pretrial and trial considerations. In addition, find coverage of criminal, administrative, antitrust and tax considerations. It contains a chapter on intellectual property and the Internet, and 50-state coverage.

Employees often have access to the proprietary information, trade secrets, and other confidential data of the employer. The disclosure or competitive use of such information can gut an employer's competitive advantage, and has become the subject of courtroom battles and settlement negotiations. This title helps labor and employment law attorneys as well as intellectual property law practitioners, in counseling on and litigating issues of trade secret protection.

It is a comprehensive source for the body of trade secret law. State and federal laws dealing with trade secrets and confidential information are identified, organized, reviewed, and analyzed. Key legal theories, and specifics of protecting trade secrets in all 50 states, the EU, and Japan are covered.

This work includes definitions of trade secrets, litigation of trade secrets from both plaintiff and defendant perspectives, corporate trade secrets, criminal prosecution and an overview of trade secrets law in selected states.