Things every client should know about trade secrets

Can you secure a trade secret yourself?

Yes. Generally speaking, in the United States, every citizen has the right to represent himself or herself in most kinds of legal proceedings and in managing the legal aspects of his or her own affairs.

However, most trade secret attorneys recommend against the practice. Why? Because the preparation of an effective trade secret maintenance program is an interdisciplinary task that requires an effective, rigorous, fully informed, and common-sensical integration of business, technological, and legal issues. Although, theoretically, the creation of such a program should be a simple matter of procedure, experienced legal practitioners observe, time and again, that designing a program that will actually be followed is anything but simple. Technological challenges and challenges inherent in human nature combine to make for a project that is best and most cost-effectively managed by obtaining input from experienced, and specialized, business, technological and legal practitioners.