Trade Secrets

Safeguarding your insight and your advantage.

Protecting trade secrets is essential for maintaining a competitive advantage. At Bricker Graydon Wyatt, our trade secret attorneys help businesses identify, protect, and enforce rights in their confidential and commercially valuable information. We support companies in managing proprietary data, limiting access, creating security protocols, and training employees on confidentiality. When disputes arise, our litigators investigate misappropriation and pursue injunctions, damages, and other legal remedies. Clients across industries rely on our experience and proven results in trade secret protection and enforcement.

Services

Identification & Audits – helping companies comprehensively identify and catalog proprietary information, data, formulas, designs, methods, strategies, and other intellectual property qualifying for trade secret protection.

Counseling – drafting and reviewing non-disclosure, confidentiality, and non-compete agreements to contractually protect trade secret information shared with employees, partners, vendors, and other parties.

Monitoring & Compliance – advising on implementing compliance policies, access controls, security systems, and training to maintain trade secret protection without comprising business needs.

Licensing & Commercialization – negotiating and drafting licensing agreements and partnerships to help clients monetize trade secret intellectual property through commercialization while preserving confidentiality.

Litigation – if trade secret misappropriation occurs, we pursue all available legal remedies through state and federal courts, including pursuing injunctions, evidence seizure, damages, and attorney's fees.