Trade secrets

Protect your competitive edge with a trade secret lawyer in California

Whether we’re advising on how best to protect your trade secrets or handling a misappropriation dispute, we help companies protect their creative and intellectual capital.

Why it matters

Avoiding claims of misappropriation

Companies must make sure their own activities don’t give rise to claims that they misappropriated someone else’s trade secrets.

These issues are particularly important today, as joint ventures, partnerships and confidential relationships with employees, customers and vendors have become standard for growing businesses.

Relationships that need protection:

  • Partnerships
  • Employees
  • Customers
  • Vendors

About our trade secret services

How we protect your trade secrets

We help companies identify what information is worth protecting and put practical safeguards in place: confidentiality and invention assignment agreements, access controls, and clear processes when employees join or leave.

When disputes arise, we advise on both sides, whether your confidential information has been taken or your company faces a claim that it misused someone else’s. Early action often preserves options that are lost later.

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Herbert T. "Teddy" Patty, Registered Patent Attorney

Your patent attorney

Herbert T. Patty, Esq.

A Registered Patent Attorney licensed to practice law in California and to represent inventors and companies before the USPTO. Before becoming an attorney, he worked as a process engineer at Intel, then moved to Intel's legal department for patent licensing and prosecution.

  • 10+ Years IP Experience
  • Santa Clara Law, J.D. + High Technology Law
  • Georgia Tech, Mechanical Engineering

FAQ

Common trade secret questions

General information, not legal advice for your situation.

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Information that has value because it isn’t generally known, such as formulas, processes, source code, customer lists or pricing, and that you take reasonable steps to keep secret.

Protect your trade secrets

Schedule a consultation to discuss how to protect your trade secrets. We’ll agree on scope, timing and fees before any work begins.