This panel session will examine legal nuances when promoting innovation and collaboration whilst at the same time safeguarding proprietary information
- Indemnification: Best practice for incorporating trade secret clauses
- Internal training: How to emphasis training, reporting and enhanced ethical behaviours
- Successfully establish a risk mitigation framework when collaborating with another party and ensuring reasonable measures are taken to protect your trade secret.
Stephen Bychowski
Assistant General Counsel
Sanof
Will Cottrell
Executive Director IP Licencing
RTX
DLP software detects potential data breaches/data exfiltration transmissions and prevents them by monitoring, detecting and blocking sensitive data
- How DLP tools work, capabilities, drawbacks, and costs.
- Can DLP tools form part of the reasonable steps that the company takes to protect its trade secrets
- Examine the intersection between DLP tools and legal arguments for future litigation scenarios
As companies continuously face threats to trade secrets leakage, there is growing recognition that protecting these valuable assets requires a collaborative approach. By uniting a cross disciplinary teams within an organization and ensure that trade secret protection is integrated into every aspect of the business—from legal and technical to operational and strategic levels.
- Understand the key roles and responsibilities of different departments (legal, cybersecurity, HR, R&D, leadership) in trade secret protection.
- Learn how to create an effective cross-functional working group to collaborate on trade secret initiatives.
- Discover strategies for building organizational alignment and fostering cooperation between legal and technical teams.
- Learn how to integrate trade secret protection into everyday business operations and company culture.
Kelly Burke
Associate Senior Legal Counsel- IP Investigations
Adobe
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.
Julie Lappin
Senior IP Counsel
Nestle
Julie is a Senior IP Counsel at Nestlé S.A. She has worked for multiple business units in her 14+ year career with Nestlé, including Coffee, Nestlé Health Science, and PetCare. Julie significantly contributed to developing and deploying Nestlé's trade secret protection program. Before joining Nestle, she was a Corporate Patent Counsel at Pfizer Inc.
Diane Fiddle
General Counsel
Qloo
Damon Gupta
Director, Patent Counsel
Spark Therapeutics, Inc
Damon Gupta is a Director, Patent Counsel at Spark Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in gene therapy and member of the Roche Group. With over a decade of experience in intellectual property (IP) law and a background in molecular biology, Damon advises biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies on patent strategy, IP transactions, and risk mitigation. At Spark, Damon leads efforts to protect proprietary assets, including trade secrets, manage IP disputes, and provides IP support to cross-functional teams, including R&D, manufacturing, and corporate transactions. Damon holds a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, an M.S. from Baylor College of Medicine, and a B.S. from The Ohio State University.