Tips from the Trademark Insider: Keep Your Trade Secrets Secret.

Today as we welcome several new employees to our company we are reminded of the need to keep confidential trade secret materials confidential and secret. It may sound simple, but it is often overlooked in the protection of one’s intellectual property assets.

Beyond trademarks, your proprietary business systems, manuals, and other plans that make your business uniquely yours should be kept just that – as a trade secret divulged to new employees only once they acknowledge and promise to keep the same exclusively your business’s. Make sure you have policies in place that ensure that all employees, new and old, acknowledge and understand that your proprietary business systems are just that – proprietary.

Failure to do so may leave your company with little or no recourse to prevent unrestricted use of this most valuable information by those who obtain a copy of it.

The Trademark Company