10 Best Practices for Trade Secret Protection BELA Strategic Partner, Baker McKenzie, summarizes their top ten recommendations for trade secret protection in this article. Read article

The Board Ultimatum: Protect and Preserve The Rising Importance of Safeguarding Trade Secrets In our digital age, it is more challenging than ever to keep a secret. Today’s trade secrets are more susceptible to the threat of being hacked or downloaded. In light of these modern challenges, BELA Strategic Partner, Baker [...]

The Importance of Cybersecurity for Trade Secret Protection The rising threat of cybersecurity breaches for companies and other organizations puts trade secrets at greater risk from theft and loss. Implementing effective cybersecurity protection is therefore becoming one of the key priorities of companies whose business depends on trade secrets. Cybersecurity itself [...]

Economic Impact of Trade Secret Theft The Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org) in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) shares their report on the assessment of the economic impact of trade secret theft. The report focuses on four issues that are critical to understanding trade secret theft and how to [...]

Protecting Intellectual Property Through Enterprise Risk Management Intellectual property – innovative product designs, brand names and logos, patented new technology and trade secrets such as formulas, processes and strategic business information – is central to the success of every company. But in today’s highly dynamic, global and connected marketplace with different [...]

Safeguarding Trade Secrets and Mitigating Threats The Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org) collaborated with PwC to publish the report: Economic Impact of Trade Secret Theft: A framework for companies to safeguard trade secrets and mitigate potential threats. The full report provides insights into the estimate of trade secret theft [...]

The Defend Trade Secrets Act in Business Transactions In this article, BELA Strategic Partner, Baker McKenzie, summarizes the key issues and action items that a seller should consider before making trade secret information available to potential bidders.. Read article