Trade Secrets Made Practical – Part 2

In a series of articles devoted to trade secrets, Gowling WLG professionals share their knowledge to help you understand and manage trade secrets to use them as tools for competitiveness. These articles are the preamble for our upcoming conference on October 24.

We hope to enlighten you on:

• Items that may be subject to protection under trade secret law;
• The benefits that trade secrets bring compared to other forms of intellectual property; and
• The long-term competitive advantage that the protection of trade secrets can provide.

Since we defined trade secrets and discussed their valuation in previous articles, we will now examine strategic aspects of the protection granted by trade secrets. To do this, we will compare the different methods of protecting intellectual property.