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How to Successfully Integrate Protection of Data Into Your Trade Secret Protection Policy

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?

Author:

Arian Hassanalizadeh

VP, Head of Legal and Data Protection Officer

Genesis Global

Author:

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.

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Protecting Trade Secrets: Iron-Clad Strategies for Employee Onboarding and Offboarding

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

Author:

James Gale

Co-Chair (IP Litigation)

Cozen O'Connor

Author:

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.

Author:

Amanda Betman

Employment Law Executive Director

Novartis

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The Debate: Round 2 – To Catalogue or Not to Catalogue Your Trade Secrets

- Different rationale on whether you can log trade secret IP?
• Differences in industries?
• How companies operate that may provide different rationale
- What variables are available to track their trade secret?
- How their industries operate,
- Examine examples of cost/benefits of trade secret tracking
- How to effectively mark, catalogue trade secret – to avoid litigation
• What tools and controls are available.
• How many categories do you use?
- How do you define different sensitivity issue and audits.

Author:

Shane O`Neill

Assistant General Counsel

Norsk Titanium

Shane O’Neill trained and qualified as a competition lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he advised clients in the aerospace and aviation sectors on merger control and antitrust regulatory matters. Since moving in-house he has advised on a broad range of matters including IT outsourcing, IP licensing, data protection, IPO, cybersecurity, commercial negotiations with aerospace OEMS, corporate transactions, and IP strategy.

Currently, he is Assistant General Counsel at Norsk Titanium, a global leader in metal 3D printing which supplies components to the aerospace, defence, and industrial sectors. He is responsible for a number of corporate areas including driving the company’s IP strategy, creation of IP awareness, trade secret protection, IP portfolio management, IP risk reduction, IP collaboration and cybersecurity.