Don’t Take My Stuff!: How to Avoid Losing Your Trade Secrets When Employees Depart And Accusations of Theft When They Are Hired


Event Details

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Unexpected Vulnerabilities: The Modern Silicon Valley Workplace
Part 1, “Don’t Take My Stuff!: How to Avoid Losing Your Trade Secrets When Employees Depart And Accusations of Theft When They Are Hired”

Date
Thursday, October 10, 2013
8:00 AM – Registration
8:30 AM – Breakfast, Presentation, and Interactive Discussion
9:30 AM – Networking
10:00 AM – Adjourn

Location
Orrick’s Silicon Valley Office
1000 Marsh Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Speakers

  • Elizabeth Howard, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • Wayne Hale, Director, Resurgant Computer Forensics, Inc.
  • Diana Rutowski, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Description

When an employee walks out the door, how do you confirm that they are not walking out with your company’s crown jewels? What can you do to prevent trade secret theft in the first place? How do you spot misappropriation in the age of email, cloud storage, and thumb drives?

When you hire an employee from a competitor, how do you make sure you aren’t walking into a lawsuit? How do you avoid infecting your company with any documents the new hire retained from prior employment?

Join us and a forensic expert as we discuss what to do when you are suspicious of potential theft, including use of the latest forensic approaches, and how to respond if you learn your new hire may not have left all her former employer’s trade secrets behind when she joined your company …

To register for this event, please click HERE.

Orrick’s Intellectual Property Group in Silicon Valley is launching its first IP Breakfast Series featuring three installments on “Unexpected Vulnerabilities: The Modern Silicon Valley Workplace.” Please mark the following dates on your calendar:

October 10, 2013
Part 1, “Don’t Take My Stuff!: How to Avoid Losing Your Trade Secrets When Employees Depart And Accusations of Theft When They Are Hired”

November 7, 2013
Part 2, “Stop Trademark and Domain Squatters: Tactics to Prevent, Find, and Deal with Them”

December 5, 2013
Part 3, “PANIC!: How to Anticipate, Prepare, and Respond to Data Breaches”

Keep an eye out for Orrick’s second Silicon Valley IP Breakfast Series in early 2014.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an accredited MCLE provider in the State of New York. This non-transitional continuing legal education course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 1.0 credit hour, of which 1.0 credit hour can be applied toward the areas of professional practice requirement.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an accredited MCLE provider in the State of California. This continuing legal education course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the State Bar of California for a maximum of 1.0 credit hour, of which 1.0 credit hour can be applied to the general requirement.

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