Trade Secret Protection and Enforcement

Sometimes your company’s most valuable business assets consist of information that your competitors have not been able to figure out.  You need to identify these secrets and take steps to ensure that the critical information remains secret. Freeborn’s trade secret team can help you create an effective policy for locking down your company’s trade secrets—which will ensure that your company can keep its competitive edge.

The key to an effective trade secret program is—not surprisingly—figuring out how to keep valuable secrets from getting out. Freeborn’s trade secret team has extensive experience in helping clients develop corporate secrecy policies that are both effective and practical.

Our trade secret team includes lawyers with experience in drafting and enforcing non-disclosure clauses and non-compete provisions in employment agreements. We also have experience in helping clients to assert (or defend against) corporate theft claims between competitors. We have a winning track record in state and federal jurisdictions across the country.

Representative Matters

Prosecuted complex trade secret and trademark infringement litigation resulting in a consent injunction requiring return of all trade secret information and other intellectual property.

Obtained preliminary injunction in trademark infringement action precluding defendants from using the client’s corporate logo.

Successfully blocked movement of employee to key competitor based on trade secret knowledge of employee.

Successfully obtained emergency and preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of national consulting firm in multiple cases involving breaches of restrictive covenants and use of trade secrets by departing employees.

Prosecuted complex trade secret and trademark infringement litigation resulting in a consent injunction requiring return of all trade secret information and other intellectual property.

Represented packaging company as lead trial counsel in non-competition, non-solicitation, non-disclosure and trade secret matter pending in federal court and successfully obtained a temporary restraining order against two former sales employees who violated their post-employment obligations owed to our client. After obtaining the TRO, negotiated a very favorable settlement for client that included activity restrictions, return of trade secrets and confidential information and a six-figure monetary payment to our client.