Trade Secrets

Trade secrets can be key to protecting the integrity and success of a business. Perkins Coie attorneys have worked closely with clients across diverse industries to provide trade secret counseling and litigation services.

Our attorneys in the Business group are highly skilled in counseling clients on identifying and defining trade secrets for transactional purposes; negotiating trade secret licenses and transfers; completing due diligence on partners' ability to keep trade secrets; and helping clients establish measures and programs intended to protect trade secrets and other confidential information.

We also have substantial experience dealing with trade secrets in the employment context, counseling clients on employment issues and helping them prepare employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, internal trade secret protection procedures and covenants not to compete. Where effective, our Labor & Employment attorneys partner with our Intellectual Property attorneys to form industry- or technology-specific teams for a client’s specific needs.

Our litigators handle matters involving technological trade secrets as well as cases that involve the disclosure of confidential business information, such as customer lists and marketing data. Our Intellectual Property litigators also counsel clients to effectively use trade secrets to protect their intellectual property; prevent or prepare for trade secret disputes; and prosecute or defend trade secret cases.