Research Guides: Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets

Intellectual Property Resources

Practical Guidance: Intellectual Property & Technology
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Provides a one-stop access point for a variety of information on copyright, trademark, and patent law resources. Content includes relevant forms, checklists, and commentary from a variety of respected IP practitioners, including relevant Law 360 articles. Available on Lexis. Username and password required.
Practical Law
Practical Law provides access to the Practical Law Company's online content of patent law resources, including downloadable forms, checklists, and expert commentary and analysis. Practical Law Company is now accessible through Westlaw. Username and password required.
Westlaw Intellectual Property
The Westlaw Intellectual Property page organizes Westlaw's vast array of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret materials on one page. Information includes forms, sample clauses, trial briefs, and international materials. Username and password required.

Trade Secrets - Practical Law

Trade Secrets - Practical Law
Content includes practice notes, standard documents, checklists, and standard clauses on Trade Secret Law. Available on Westlaw. Username and password required.

Black's Law defines Trade Secrets as a formula, process, device, or other business information that is kept confidential to maintain an advantage over competitors; information — including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process — that (1) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known or readily ascertainable by others who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and (2) is the subject of reasonable efforts, under the circumstances, to maintain its secrecy.

Trade Secret Treatises

Corporate Counsel's Guide to Protecting Trade Secrets
Materials and forms included in Corporate Counsel's Guide to Protecting Trade Secrets help corporate counsel provide practical and cost-effective advice on protecting company information. Topics covered include an overview of what trade secrets are and how they can be protected, antitrust aspects of trade secrets, employment contracts and how they are used to protect trade secrets, handling unsolicited idea submissions, the criminal aspects of trade secret theft, trade secrets and the OSHA Hazard Communication Rule, trade secrets in the community -- emergency response and community right-to-know laws, and forms and checklists. Available on Westlaw. Username and password required.

Milgrim on Trade Secrets by Roger M. Milgrim
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Call Number: Law General Collection KF3197.A6 M5
Milgrim on Trade Secrets is the complete guide to protecting and using trade secrets and other intangible property. * Protection by contract and by operation of law * Substantive and procedural problems of litigation * Taxation and antitrust issues related to trade secrets * Effect of the employer-employee relationship on trade secrets * Relationship between trade secrets and other areas of intellectual property. Also available on Lexis. Username and password required.

Trade Secrets Law
Trade Secrets Law is a treatise providing a full analysis of pertinent laws and a thorough review of many divergent legal theories accepted by the courts. Available on Westlaw. Username and password required.