Trade Secret Enforcement in the Technology Company

Portable IP and the Tech Company

In a 21st century workplace, a company's best assets—like electronic data or intangible strategy—are highly portable intellectual property. This means that an employee, or an unscrupulous competitor, can very quickly export value and make trade secret en forcement difficult. A drive with a gigabyte of storage, enough to carry several executable applications, can travel out of the office inside a closed hand.