Unlike a trademark or a patent, a trade secret has no register to prove it exists: its protection depends entirely on the business having treated it as confidential in the first place, through contracts, access controls and consistent practice, before any dispute arises.
We help businesses map what information genuinely qualifies as a trade secret, build non-disclosure, employment and contractor terms that create an enforceable confidentiality obligation, and advise on the practical safeguards, access restrictions, marking, exit procedures, that make a later claim credible.
When a trade secret is misappropriated, whether by a departing employee, a former partner or a competitor, we act quickly to assess the evidence and pursue the fastest available remedy, since delay is often read as evidence that the information was never treated as confidential at all.