Covenants Not to Compete and Trade Secrets (OnDemand Webinar)

$199.00

SKU: 408209EAU

Description

Learn to protect your clients’ trade secrets and get practical tips for using restrictive covenants and trade secret agreements.Learn to recognize the many issues involved in protecting your company and clients from trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition, with special emphasis on drafting, using and enforcing noncompetition agreements, nonsolicitation agreements, and confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements. This material provides both an overview and specific principles of law regarding the protection of confidential business information and other competitive business interests through restrictive covenants and trade secret law two of the fastest growing areas of intellectual property law outside of traditional patent, copyright and trademark concerns. Topics covered include covenants not to compete, nonsolicitation agreements, and confidentiality agreements multistate drafting and enforcement concerns the blue penciling doctrine trade secret identification and misappropriation under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the common law developing a trade secret protection program recent legal developments and much more. This material will also address client counseling strategies and provide numerous tips when applying legal issues to practical situations confronted in this rapidly developing area of law.

Date: 2020-12-09 Start Time: End Time:

Learning Objectives

Covenants Not to Compete
•Legal Requirements
•Blue Penciling Doctrine and Severability Clauses
•New Employee vs. Current Employee
•Defining Competition
•Choice of Law and Forum Selection
•Multistate Drafting Concerns
•Business-to-Business Settings and Independent Contractors
•Assignment of Noncompete Agreements
•Recent Trends in Noncompete Law

Nonsolicitation Agreements
•Legal Requirements
•Primary Differences With Covenants Not to Compete
•Nonsolicitation of Customers/Employees

Trade Secrets
•Definition
–Uniform Trade Secrets Act
–Restatement (First) of Torts
–Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition
•Trade Secret Claims: Identification and Misappropriation
•Trade Secrets vs. Merely Confidential Information
•Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine
•Reverse Engineering and Independent Development
•Statutory Preemption of Other Claims
•Defend Trade Secrets Act, Economic Espionage Act and Related Federal Statutes
•Trade Secret Protection Programs
•Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreements
•Assignment of Inventions Agreements

CLE (Please check the Detailed Credit Information page for states that have already been approved) ,NALA ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.

Kenneth P. Carlson, Jr.-Constangy Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP