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Trade Secrets: Questions and Answers about Trade Secret Law; 1. What are trade secrets?; 2. Why protect trade secrets?; 3. What technology is protectable by trade secrets?; 4. How long is a trade secret protectable?; 5. What specific type of protection is offered by a trade secret?; 6. What is the geographic scope of protection of a trade secret?; 7. How important is trade secret protection?; 8. What is misappropriation of trade secrets?; 9. What remedies are available when trade secrets are misappropriated?; 10. What is the Uniform Trade Secret Act?; 11. What states have adopted the Uniform Trade Secret Act?; 12. What is meant by "not generally known?"; 13. What is meant by "not readily ascertainable?"; 14. What is "reverse engineering?"; 15. What can one do if the information has or may become "generally known or readily ascertainable?"; 16. What is meant by "independent economic value due to secrecy?"; 17. What are "wealth creating" and "wealth preserving" information?; 18. What must one do to protect trade secret information?; 19. What is the difference between physical security measures and notice measures?; 20. How important are notice measures?; 21. How important is physical security?; 22. What should one consider when choosing appropriate notice measures?; 23. What notice procedures may be used?; 24. How should one use non-disclosure agreements?; 25. Should the company formally adopt a confidentiality policy?; 26. How should documents be marked?; 27. How can one use positive and negative reinforcement?; 28. How can one use written acknowledgments?; 29. What should be done at meetings?; 30. When should discussions be held with individual persons?; 31. What should one consider when choosing appropriate physical security measures?; 32. What physical security measures may be used?; 33. What are some procedures for direct control of the information?; 34. How should visitors be treated?; 35. How should the premises be controlled during off hours?; 36. What is meant by"under the circumstances?"; 37. What is a trade secret audit?; 38. Why is a trade secret audit important?; 39. How does the expense of an attorney impact what is reasonable under the circumstances?

Important: These Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provided by the Patent Cafe where prepared by N Paul Friederichs III and Andy Gibbs. They are used with permission of the Patent Cafe. More intellectual property resources can be found at the Patent Cafe.

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