PROTECT YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Sometimes protection conferred by the usual IP protection mechanisms such as Patents or Industrial Designs is not sufficient or adequate, to protect knowledge.
With the birth of Law 1/2019 on the protection of Trade Secrets, it is possible to protect any knowledge (technological, commercial, organizational, financial, etc.) if it is secret, has a real or potential business value because of this fact, and reasonable measures have been taken by the holder to keep it secret.
Why use this type of protection?
- Because it is applicable to any type of knowledge: technological, commercial, organizational, financial, etc., which might not be patentable subject matter.
- Because it prevents industrial espionage and facilitates the detection of illegal acts.
- Because it allows the holder to bring much more useful/effective actions than those for breach of an NDA.
- Because as long as it is not disclosed, its protection is indefinite in time and unlimited in territorial scope.
- Because it allows invoking the right of exception of prior use (Art. 63 LP) or the right of independent development.
- Because it protects against difficulty in committing the unlawful act.
We help you
Implementing a Protection of Secrecy Program (PPS) in three phases:
- A first assessment phase of your company’s current situation in relation to trade secrets, identifying and inventorying them in each company department.
- A second phase of:
- Implementing reasonable measures for the trade secrets protection in which measures are provided in the organizational, technological, or technical (including IT) and legal domains.
- Staff training and Information
- A third phase of periodic Verification or Control in which we check measures compliance.
A Trade Secret is a company’s intangible asset. Keep it confidential.
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We are experts in identifying and protecting trade secrets as companies' intangible assets of great value.
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