Valuation Of Trade Secrets

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. This is the third of four articles that will make up 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 described trade secrets in the previous article, distinguishing them from patents and copyrights, we will now focus on the value that they can represent for your company. In order to consider their impact, we will look at two examples from the news before dealing with the valuation of trade secrets.