In this state, the consideration must have a “reasonable relationship” to the employer’s interest in restraining the employee from competing. Simply restricting an employee from lawful competition for the sake of preventing competition will almost certainly fail.
Category: Trade Secrets
Protect Your Trade Secrets or Lose Them
At a bare minimum, all businesses should have a standard confidentiality (non-disclosure) agreement for its employees, vendors, investors, and anyone else who has access to the business’s trade secrets.
Proving Lost Profits in a Trade Secrets Case – An Expensive Lesson from a Texas Court of Appeals
Before filing a trade secrets case or in the early stages of such case, a company bringing a lawsuit should always consider the following questions: (1) what damages did we suffer? (2) how do we calculate such damages? (3) how do we prove the damages in court?
Why Trade Secrets Protection is Even More Important in the Strong Economy
It is a well-known fact that when the economy improves, employee mobility rises as well. The most valuable employees – those with a specialized skill set
Why the Appointment of Jeff Sessions as the New Attorney General May Lead to More Trade Secrets Litigation
On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump named Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as his pick for the next Attorney General. Sessions is a former U.S. attorney and
What Should a Company do When it Suspects That an Employee Stole Its Trade Secrets?
Employees take their employers’ trade secrets all the time. It’s a fact of life. No matter what systems an employer has in place, sooner or