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In an era where corporate espionage poses a significant threat to businesses, understanding how to effectively use copyright and trade secret protections is crucial. This webinar will cover conducting comprehensive IP and trade secret audits to identify valuable materials, practical steps to ensure robust protection of sensitive information, and real-world examples and case studies illustrating successful protection strategies. Join us for an insightful panel discussion where members of the Corporate Espionage Response Team will delve into strategies and best practices for preventing and remedying corporate espionage.
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Evan Gibbs | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Evan is a practical, results-oriented attorney who partners with business clients to address their most critical corporate espionage matters. These matters typically involve the theft or unlawful retention of trade secrets and other confidential information by groups or individual former executives, employees, contractors, vendors, or other third parties. As co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Espionage Response Team, Evan leads a multidisciplinary group of attorneys with extensive experience regarding corporate espionage matters. Together with a team of attorneys and technical experts, they leverage their deep experience with digital forensic investigations to ensure that clients’ matters are handled using the most cutting-edge forensic technology available. Evan and his team handle these matters throughout the United States.
These matters also often involve the enforcement of noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements, another specific area Evan focuses his practice on. He has extensive experience drafting, enforcing, and defending against the enforcement of these types of agreements in numerous states across the U.S. His practice further encompasses disputes involving departed executives and other high-level employees (often involving business-to-business litigation), including claims of tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of contract, fraud, civil conspiracy, defamation, and other business torts.
Evan’s work has been covered by, Court TV, Dateline, 60 minutes, NBC New York, Bloomberg News, Law & Crime Network, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Los Angeles Daily News, BuzzFeed News, and others. He also serves as an adjunct professor of law at the Emory University School of Law teaching corporate espionage investigations and litigation. Evan is a former columnist for AboveTheLaw.com, where he wrote about legal issues in the context of popular culture. Evan also regularly provides pro bono legal representation to various charitable organizations and individuals. He is one of the attorneys representing Ryan Duke in the State of Georgia v. Duke litigation involving the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a case covered by the Up and Vanished podcast and other media outlets.
Alison A. Grounds | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
With a practical, efficiency-obsessed approach, Alison assists clients in all discovery-related aspects of litigation, internal and governmental investigations, subpoena response, and due diligence, as well as proactive litigation readiness. Clients across varied industries rely on Alison’s litigation experience and technology prowess to develop and manage the overall strategy and to advocate on their behalf during discovery conferences, meet and confers, and hearings. She regularly handles discovery disputes across the U.S. to ensure the compliance and responsiveness of her clients’ adversaries and takes and defends eDiscovery-related depositions in support of her clients. She also serves as national discovery counsel to ensure consistent approaches to eDiscovery across a portfolio of matters for clients.
Alison is the founder and managing partner of Troutman eMerge, a wholly owned subsidiary of the firm, which provides end-to-end, integrated discovery services for legal matters. Troutman eMerge’s attorneys and technologists combine legal strategy with the latest technology to manage data, reduce costs, and identify facts needed to resolve disputes. Their novel approach effectively addresses two common causes of unanticipated costs and risks: disconnected stakeholders and processes. The technologies used regularly include artificial intelligence, technology-assisted review, continuous active learning, predictive coding, analytics, email threading, data visualization, and custom applications. Troutman eMerge also creates bespoke staffing, technological, and project management solutions to ensure clients’ goals are achieved.
Clients rely on Alison for proactive litigation readiness, including the development of repeatable and defensible litigation response plans before litigation arises. She is known for developing effective plans for the preservation, collection, analysis, and production of electronically stored information (ESI) that keep the costs and burdens of discovery proportionate to the unique circumstances and needs of each case or matter. Alison is an authority on eDiscovery law. She is an adjunct professor of eDiscovery and Legal Technology at Emory University School of Law and a frequent speaker and author on eDiscovery issues. Additionally, Alison chairs the firm’s Innovation Committee and serves on the Policy Committee. She’s also a leader of the firm’s Generative AI Task Force.
William M. Taylor | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Will is a litigator and co-lead of the firm’s Corporate Espionage Response Team. In addition to handling a wide range of complex business litigation, he deals with the pressing issues that arise from trade secret misappropriation and non-compete disputes. Will’s recent practice experience has involved clients in the fields of health care, investing, medical devices, construction, technology, manufacturing, mortgage lending and servicing, food and beverage, franchising, distribution, and consumer services.
The three most common types of claims in Will’s litigations are: (1) breach of contract, (2) business torts, such as fraud, fiduciary duty violations, negligence, and misrepresentation; and (3) trade secret misappropriation. Additionally, Will has handled a number of matters involving the rights of shareholders in private companies.
While located in Boston, Will has appeared in many state and federal jurisdictions. Within Massachusetts, the litigation that Will handles in state and federal court often involves claims for violation of the Massachusetts statute, known as Chapter 93A, that protects consumers and prohibits unfair business practices.
Will’s appellate experience includes successful representation of appellees before the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit and Eleventh Circuit, respectively.
A substantial portion of Will’s practice involves international parties with disputes before international and domestic arbitration institutions, and in state and federal court.
Representative engagements include significant commercial disputes before arbitral institutions in India, Singapore, England, New York, and Boston. The parties include companies and individuals from Brazil, Dubai, England, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Isle of Man, Spain, and Turkey. Will is involved with the Boston International Arbitration Council and has served as a moderator and speaker on several panels regarding domestic and international arbitration issues. His pro bono experience has focused on projects for the PAIR Project, Homeless Advocacy Project, the Landlord/Tenant Program, and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.
Peter T. Wakiyama | Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Peter advises clients in all areas of intellectual property, including strategy, portfolio development, registration, commercialization, and enforcement. He is increasingly advising clients at the intersection of intellectual property, technology, and data, including data privacy and security. His tech background spans more than three decades and includes experience as a hands-on technologist in the federal government contracting and private sectors; working with emerging technologies, entrepreneurs and other technology industry professionals; and advising clients on a broad range of technology legal matters. Peter is a trusted resource who helps his clients navigate complex intellectual property and technology matters amid the evolving challenges brought by technology and data in transactions and in day-to-day business operations. He is at the forefront of counseling clients on a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI)-related matters, including the development, adoption, and use of AI tools; emerging AI intellectual property and licensing issues; and transactions that involve AI intellectual property and data assets used to train AI models.
Peter advises clients across all major sectors, including e-commerce, IT services, retail, financial services/fintech, telecommunications, entertainment, health care/digital health, real estate, manufacturing, food and beverage, hospitality, and social media. Clients rely on him for all aspects of technology and IP transactions, such as development, licensing, asset purchases, strategic alliances, and SaaS; IP strategy, protection, enforcement, and commercialization; and data protection, privacy, and security. His deep knowledge in core intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and patents, combined with his broad industry experience and technology background, allow him to bring a holistic legal perspective to his clients’ needs.
Peter develops strategies for clients around issues related to new-to-market and emerging technologies. He advises on the effective use of data and helps clients mitigate the potential risks associated with the commercialization of data assets. In addition to his IP and technology practices, Peter regularly assists clients with their assessment of, and compliance with, federal and state privacy and security laws, including CAN-SPAM, COPPA, TCPA, FTCA, GLBA, HIPAA, and GDPR; privacy policies, terms of use, information security policies, and data governance agreements, as well as data privacy and security due diligence, and M&A support. Peter is a recognized authority on intellectual property, technology, and data privacy and security. He is a sought-after lecturer and trainer who provides programming for clients as well as major universities.
I. Understanding corporate espionage | 2:00pm – 2:12pm
II. Conducting comprehensive IP and trade secret audits to identify valuable materials | 2:12pm – 2:24pm
III. Real-world examples and case studies | 2:24pm – 2:36pm
IV. Practical steps to ensure robust protection of sensitive information | 2:36pm – 2:48pm
V. Information governance & data security | 2:48pm – 3:00pm
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