Innovative companies must ensure that exiting employees are not taking valuable intellectual property with them when they join a new company. Conversely, employers must adopt best practices when recruiting new employees to avoid any costly litigation challenges. This panel session will provide you with the best approach in dealing with the on-boarding and exiting of employees to protect your trade secret assets.
- Discover when to use forensic tools as part of onboarding new employees or conducting investigations.
- Understand the implications of employment and non-compete agreements for trade secrets:
- When should an employer use an injunction to protect your trade secret?
- Discover how to safeguard your intellectual property assets when changing to a new company:
- What information can be used by the new company?
What due diligence must be completed before joining a new company?
Sanjesh Sharma
Kelly Burke
Kelly Burke is Associate Senior Legal Counsel, IP Investigations at Adobe, where she focuses on IP investigations and protection, and leads the Trade Secret Protection Program. Prior to that, she was Senior Security Counsel at Apple, concentrating on insider threats. Before she went in-house, she was a prosecutor for more than a decade at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in trying complex white collar, public corruption, and public integrity criminal cases.
Ada Wong
