Trade Secrets: Asset Management and Protection - Webinar von FORUM Institut für Management GmbH

- The various changes taking place impacting trade secrets - Disputes and litigation - The importance of trade secret metadata - Insights gained from companies taking trade secrets seriously - Diverse entities with an interest in trade secrets - The journey a company must take when it comes to trade secret asset managementThis online course provides essential understanding of statutory and contractual trade secret protection especially against insider and outsider theft. The online course assists in the organization of statutory and contractual instruments and helps to understand their impact on corporate life.

Knowledge is Power - of all the intangible assets, trade secrets are the most intangible, most valuable and most prone totheft of all. Although trade secrets have been the neglected step-child of IP, this is slowly but surely changing for a variety ofreasons. They gain economic importance worldwide and drive competitive advantage and shareholder value of any corporation. Trade secrets are nowadays a very important part of any intangible asset portfolio. It is no exaggeration to say that virtually every business possesses tradesecrets, regardless of whether the business is small, medium or large. These assets could and should be protected as tradesecrets, but the truth is that many fail to do so properly. This online seminar explores the subject of trade secrets and trade secret asset management. Participants will be able to reach an informed decision when to patent and when to go for trade secret protection.

Are you working in a corporate patent/IP department or in IP private practice and need to know how to best protect trade secrets in your company or for your client? Then this course is for you. Knowledge of IP is required.