This panel session will examine legal nuances when promoting innovation and collaboration whilst at the same time safeguarding proprietary information
- Indemnification: Best practice for incorporating trade secret clauses
- Internal training: How to emphasis training, reporting and enhanced ethical behaviours
- Successfully establish a risk mitigation framework when collaborating with another party and ensuring reasonable measures are taken to protect your trade secret.
Stephen Bychowski
Assistant General Counsel
Sanof
Will Cottrell
Executive Director IP Licencing
RTX
DLP software detects potential data breaches/data exfiltration transmissions and prevents them by monitoring, detecting and blocking sensitive data
- How DLP tools work, capabilities, drawbacks, and costs.
- Can DLP tools form part of the reasonable steps that the company takes to protect its trade secrets
- Examine the intersection between DLP tools and legal arguments for future litigation scenarios
As companies continuously face threats to trade secrets leakage, there is growing recognition that protecting these valuable assets requires a collaborative approach. By uniting a cross disciplinary teams within an organization and ensure that trade secret protection is integrated into every aspect of the business—from legal and technical to operational and strategic levels.
- Understand the key roles and responsibilities of different departments (legal, cybersecurity, HR, R&D, leadership) in trade secret protection.
- Learn how to create an effective cross-functional working group to collaborate on trade secret initiatives.
- Discover strategies for building organizational alignment and fostering cooperation between legal and technical teams.
- Learn how to integrate trade secret protection into everyday business operations and company culture.
Kelly Burke
Associate Senior Legal Counsel- IP Investigations
Adobe
Kelly Burke is Associate Senior Legal Counsel, IP Investigations at Adobe, where she focuses on IP investigations and protection, and leads the Trade Secret Protection Program. Prior to that, she was Senior Security Counsel at Apple, concentrating on insider threats. Before she went in-house, she was a prosecutor for more than a decade at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in trying complex white collar, public corruption, and public integrity criminal cases.
Julie Lappin
Senior IP Counsel
Nestle
Julie is a Senior IP Counsel at Nestlé S.A. She has worked for multiple business units in her 14+ year career with Nestlé, including Coffee, Nestlé Health Science, and PetCare. Julie significantly contributed to developing and deploying Nestlé's trade secret protection program. Before joining Nestle, she was a Corporate Patent Counsel at Pfizer Inc.
One of the biggest hurdles facing the Data Act’s implementation lies in finding the right balance between free access to data and protection of the trade secrets of manufacturers or data holders
- How the viewing data as trade secret?
- Examine trade secret provisions.
- How is this interpreted.
- How are other interpreted.
- What kinds of provisions
- How to trade secret data? Can raw data be a trade secret?
Arian Hassanalizadeh
VP, Head of Legal and Data Protection Officer
Genesis Global
Hannah Joseph
Senior Director of Trade Secret
Regeneron
Hannah T. Joseph serves as Director of Trade Secrets at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. At Regeneron, she drives strategy for the protection of trade secrets and proprietary information. Before joining Regeneron, Hannah worked at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a boutique law firm in Boston, where she specialized in the areas of trade secrets law, restrictive covenants, and employee mobility for nearly a decade. Hannah holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University.
Protecting Trade Secrets: Iron-Clad Strategies for Employee Onboarding and Offboarding
Onboarding Strategies:
- Creating clear communication of the company’s trade secret policies and the legal implications of breaches.
- Design mandatory training sessions focused on data security and confidentiality.
- Drafting confidentiality agreements that reinforce the employee’s commitment to protecting sensitive information.
Offboarding Strategies:
- How to effective exit interview to solidify departing employee of their confidentiality obligations.
- Determine when and best approach for revoking access to all company systems and retrieving company-issued devices.
- How to ensure the return or destruction of any physical or digital copies of sensitive information.
- Continuous monitoring the former employee’s activities post-departure to detect any potential data breaches.
Legal Considerations and Enforcement:
- Discuss consequences of trade secret violations in employment contracts and company policies.
- How to take swift and decisive action against any breaches
James Gale
Co-Chair (IP Litigation)
Cozen O'Connor
Ronald Sia Deputy GC
Technology & Brand; Enterprise Risk & ESG Compliance Officer
SimpliSafe
Ron serves as Deputy General Counsel - Technology and Brand, and Enterprise Risk and Sustainability Compliance Officer for SimpliSafe. Prior to joining SimpliSafe, he spent over a decade in a variety of in house legal roles at P&G / Gillette in Cincinnati and Boston, with his last role as Global Lead Commercial Counsel for the Gillette business unit. Ron studied Chemical Engineering and Economics at Tufts University and received his JD from UNH School of Law.