TRADE SECRETS IN HOUSTON AND FORT BEND COUNTY

While patents and trademarks are more commonly known, trade secret intellectual property protection is more obscure. Trade Secrets may include a very large number of subjects, including employee “know how” on how to make a product, knowledge of a proprietary process that provides an advantage over competitors, critical data related to marketing, engineering and financial matters. In actuality, the largest percentage of intellectual property is by far trade secrets that have been developed by individuals and companies during the operations. Do you have important trade secrets walking out the door? Do you have constant turnover of employees that may take those trade secrets to your competitors? We can help you protect these critical aspects of intellectual property by helping you create a system that is non-intrusive to your business. Do you have Trade Secrets in Fort Bend County because you manufacture goods that use proprietary technology? Are you worried about intellectual property theft? We can help.

Here is what the United States Patent and Trademark Office says is a trade secret. Does your business fall into this definition?

A trade secret is:

-information that has either actual or potential independent economic value by virtue of not being generally known,

-has value to others who cannot legitimately obtain the information, and

-is subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy. 

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