Confidential Information

The Globe and Mail published an article recently calling for Canada to adopt trade secret legislation to provide clear, consistent, and enforceable protection for trade secrets and confidential information across the country. The article…

A recent case from Texas demonstrates how the doctrine of “inevitable disclosure” can prevent departing employees from misappropriating an employer’s trade secrets and other valuable confidential information. In Brink’s Inc. v. Patrick, Case…

Recent years have seen an increase in trade secret theft and misappropriation of confidential business information throughout North America. This is probably due to a number of factors, including increased employee mobility,…

When it is thought of at all in the context of IP, confidential information is often thought of as things like secret recipes, codes or algorithms – less often as internal business…