The following trade secret disputes are referred to trade secret lawyers to gain their unique perspectives.

There are three main different categories:

 

• Valuable secrets have been stolen
• Secrets of no value have been stolen
• Trade secrets have been stolen but to what extent remains unknown

 

Theft is rampant on the internet. Artwork can be stolen from web designers, Code is stolen by competing programmer, salesmen steal customer lists and competitors steal business transaction data

Sometimes the theft occurs due to a long standing employee that gets greedy or is disgruntled with their pay packet and begins to sell emailing lists or building applications at home and want to profit on the side by making extra money, by using the company's intellectual property.

 

The following are incidents that have recently been addressed by trade secret lawyer:

 

• Employees have left the company with a key piece of software that he claims he built on his own time and lent it to the company.
• Executives started a competing company using many of the confidential and proprietary methodologies employed by the old company.
• Salesmen to lists to new employer who only realized they where stolen when a federal Lawsuit was served.
• The database was hacked and all the competitors databases were destroyed

A SEO took propriety methodology of a customer and reattempted to sell itself to the competing marketplace

• A hacker accessed a salespersons computer, retrieving client lists, prospects and all communications relating to that.
• An email account was hacked and private information was retrieved and distributed
• Employee fed sensitive information an extortion ring that published the memos and demanded money for not publishing more, A suit was filed
• Former employee hacked into customer information databases and sold to the company's direct company.    
• A web company was unhappy with a programmers work and files] claiming he stole trade secrets from their network system after gaining unauthorized access.'

 

 

So as you can see trades secret misappropriation is usually a product of either a breach of contract or unauthorised access, Even the seasoned trade secret lawyer has trouble at times to obtain the evidence and often requires that a trade secret lawyer must have expert knowledge of the technologies involved.

 

If you are seeking a trade secret lawyer for assistance in any of the above mentioned examples or even other intellectual property law theft where legal action has to be filed be sure to find a firm that deals in this sort of litigation often and has a reputation for getting results.

 

If you would like to browse trademark infringement, copyright infringement and domain name lawsuits and get a good idea of who is being sued for what go to the Federal Court report Portal.