Trade secrets and confidential information

Trade secrets and confidential information are often important business assets protecting ideas, concepts, know-how and technology. Particularly early on in business negotiations, confidential information is frequently the only effective protection available where businesses are disclosing valuable information to each other and have not at that point developed other IP rights. In New Zealand and the US, protection is provided through contract (non disclosure agreements or confidentiality agreements ( NDA)), and through the general law protections against breach of confidence ... READ MORE

Released by Minter Ellison Rudd Watts - July 2013