Trade Secrets
This course is part of a program and cannot be purchased individually.
Skills you'll learn
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information remain a key component of IP strategies for businesses across different industries. It also provides a competitive advantage that's not limited by time or geographical boundaries. Often, innovators and businesses pose the question of whether trade secrets and confidential information could be a better choice for protecting intangible assets as compared to other options such as patents. In this module, we shall discuss the policies and practices for protecting confidential information and protecting trade secrets through non-disclosure agreements. The module also covers the enforcement of trade secrets and the remedial measures.
I hate the word 'rendering', as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
Chris Jordan- 1. 📕 Introduction
- 1.1 ▸ Introduction
- 2. 📕 Confidential information
- 2.1 ▸ Defining confidential information
- 2.2 ▸ Policies and practices for protecting confidential information
- I. 𝍭 Full text of leading cases
- 3. 📕 Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- 3.1 ▸ Non-disclosure Agreement
- 4. 📕 Enforcement of trade secrets/ confidential information
- 4.1 ▸ Pleadings
- 4.2 ▸ Confidentiality clubs
- 4.3 ▸ Relief(s)
- I. 𝍭 Full text of leading cases
- I. ✒︎ Exercises
- ✒︎ Exercise set I
- ✒︎ Exercise set II
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- More on Policies for Protecting Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
Why Take this Course?
The learning objectives of the course are:
- To analyse confidential information in the context of trade secrets.
- To understand the policies and practices for protecting trade secrets.
- To list out important clauses in a non-disclosure agreement.
- To examine the pleadings in trade secrets violations and the remedial measures sought in such cases.
Instructors
Dr Pratima Narayan
Advocate & Mediator, Co-founder, Techlawlogi Consulting LLP
Dr Pratima Narayan has served the legal academia for over 20 years as a visiting faculty at various reputed law schools and business schools. Her expertise lies in areas of commercial contracts, consumer law, e-commerce and Intellectual Property Rights.
Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
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