Course overview
This practical one-day training course will enhance your knowledge of the principles and practice of information management in IP transactions, with a special focus on trade secrets.
Safeguarding trade secrets is essential for maintaining a company’s competitive edge, ensuring financial stability, fostering innovation and maintaining legal protection. They also play a crucial role in strategic positioning, maintaining customer trust, operational efficiency, and employee loyalty. Companies that prioritise the protection of their trade secrets will be better positioned to sustain long-term success in a competitive market.
This training course looks at the criteria and principles of managing confidential information, know-how and trade secrets as part of an IP strategy. Trade secrets are a special type of confidential information that need to be managed carefully inside and outside the organisation to ensure your business gets the best commercial benefits from them.
Trade secrets may be commercial or technical in nature and should be treated with the utmost confidentiality to maintain their integrity. A trade secret is an intellectual asset and as such forms a very important part of any IP portfolio. Trade secrets are important to all businesses and may be particularly important for SMEs, start-ups, and early-stage companies.
The training course is presented by the expert trainer in three main subject areas:
- Theory and background
- Management of information to secure trade secrets
- Trade secrets in inter-company negotiations
The course includes practical exercises to help embed the learning. There will also be plenty of time for you to ask the expert trainer your questions.
CPD Hours: 6
Course Content
- Day 1
- Theory and background
- Practical exercise: How to recognise a trade secret
- Management of information to secure trade secrets
- Practical exercise: How to manage confidential information
- Trade secrets in inter-company negotiations
- Practical exercise: How to manage access to confidential information
Speakers
Jane List
Jane List founded Extract Information Limited, Cambridgeshire, UK, in 2013. Extract Information provides legal and industry focussed patent searching and reporting, IP management support for small companies, and product development consultancy for the information industry. Jane previously worked in IP and information analyst roles at The Technology Partnership (TTP) plc, Xaar plc and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. She also worked in the information industry where she held commercial, content, and product development roles at Lighthouse IP, ProQuest, and DataStar. Throughout her career she has provided training in the management, retrieval and analysis of scientific, technical, medical, commercial and patent information, most recently through CIIPM where she developed the course in IP and Commercialisation.
Jane has qualifications in Chemistry, Information Science, and IP Law, and was for ten years, until December 2023, Editor in Chief of World Patent Information (WPI) Journal. She remains on the Advisory Board of WPI, and she is also on the Board of CEPIUG.
