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Trade Secrets 2019: What Every Lawyer Should Know

Why You Should Attend

Trade secrets can be among an organization’s most valuable assets at every stage of research, development and commercialization. Trade secrets law can protect cutting edge technologies, profit-enhancing improvements to mature technologies, and a host of valuable information in between. The importance of trade secrets law—and potential risks to trade secrets--is magnified when organizations increasingly collaborate with other companies, sometimes including competitors, in the United States and abroad, and when employees and consultants who have become immersed in trade secrets move among multiple players in the industry. New technologies such as artificial intelligence present new technical and legal challenges for which patent protection may be unavailable or uncertain as an alternative solution for protecting and sharing broad categories of intellectual property. The price of electing to protect information as a trade secret is eternal vigilance, which means that to succeed, organizations must stay on top of the latest developments in protecting trade secrets and litigating and defending against claims of misappropriation. This program brings together experts and thought leaders in the field to help you do just that.

What You Will Learn

  • What are courts, legislatures, prosecutors and economic experts thinking and doing about trade secrets issues?
  • Why do domestic organizations need to think about international trade secrets enforcement?
  • How to make “reasonable” measures to protect trade secrets “workable” measures for your organization?
  • What should lawyers and clients do in the earliest days of a trade secret dispute to reduce trouble later on?
  • How do criminal prosecutions for trade secret theft affect trade secrets protective measures and civil litigation?
  • What is the value of a trade secret and why can this question be so hard to answer?
  • When and how can alternative dispute resolution make sense in trade secret disputes?

Special Feature

  • Learn to navigate potential ethical minefields in trade secrets disputes

Who Should Attend

PLI’s Trade Secrets 2019 is designed to help those responsible for assisting clients in protecting, exploiting, and sharing intellectual property; structuring business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and related due diligence; and litigating and resolving business disputes. It will benefit intellectual property lawyers, corporate counsel, employment lawyers, white collar criminal and investigations lawyers, and others involved in protecting intellectual property and key strategic personnel.



Lecture Topics [Total time 00:07:45]

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.


  • Opening Remarks* [00:01:55]
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • A Trade Secrets Crash Course: A Primer on Trade Secrets Law and the Year’s Latest Developments [01:05:19]
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Sharing Trade Secrets Across Borders: Best Practices and Resolving Disputes [01:00:31]
    Barbara A. Reeves, Laura Wen-yu Young
  • Preventing Trade Secrets Disputes and Managing Them Right From the Start [00:57:00]
    Julie McCarthy, Wendy T. Wu, Hannah T. Joseph
  • Trade Secrets, Ethics and Maintaining Technological Competence [01:00:30]
    Jennifer A. Kenedy
  • Litigating the Big Trade Secrets Case: Special Challenges in Complex Trade Secrets Disputes [00:59:40]
    Neel Chatterjee, Sean R. McTigue, Jeff A. Pade
  • Trade Secrets Damages: What’s So Different About Them? [00:59:15]
    Amy H. Candido, Jon Putnam
  • What Does the Trade Secrets Future Hold: Navigating Trade Secrets Disputes Involving Cutting Edge Technologies and New Business Models [00:59:30]
    Andrea Weiss Jeffries, Hon. James P. Kleinberg (Ret.), James Pooley

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:


  • Complete Course Handbook
  • A Trade Secrets Crash Course 2019: What to Learn from Disputes over Driverless Cars, Data Analytics, and More (July 5, 2019)
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Sharing Secrets Safely: A Practical Guide to Ensuring That Business Collaboration Does Not Lead to Misappropriation
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • A Quick Guide to the Defend Trade Secrets Act
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Trade Secret Dispute Resolution in China: An Update
    Barbara A. Reeves
  • The Challenges of Protecting Trade Secrets in China
    Laura Wen-yu Young
  • Deterring Espionage by Foreign Entities through National Defense Act of 2018
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Preventing and Managing Trade Secrets Crises (July 21, 2019)
    Russell Beck,Wendy T. Wu,Julie McCarthy
  • Trade Secrets, Ethics and Maintaining Technological Competence
    Jennifer A. Kenedy
  • Neel Chatterjee, Oren Stevens, Thomas Counts and Sean McTigue, Privilege Considerations in High Profile Trade Secret Litigation
    Thomas A. Counts,Sean R. McTigue,Neel Chatterjee
  • Jeffrey A. Pade and Thomas A. Counts, Extraterritorial Limits of Economic Espionage and Defend Trade Secrets Act Claims (July 2019)
    Thomas A. Counts
  • Delaware Court of Chancery, Sample One-Tier Stipulation and [Proposed] Order for the Production and Exchange of Confidential Information
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Delaware Court of Chancery, Sample Two-Tier Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Governing the Production and Exchange of Confidential and Highly Confidential Information
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Model Confidentiality Order
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • United States District Court, Northern District of California, Model Stipulated Protective Order for Litigation Involving Patents, Highly Sensitive Confidential Information and/or Trade Secrets
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • New York County Supreme Court, Commercial Division, Model Stipulation and Order for the Production and Exchange of Confidential Information
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, Model Confidentiality Order
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Trade Secret Misappropriation Damages in Nascent Markets: Does Every Wrong Get a Right?
    Amy H. Candido
  • Trade Secret Valuation: Should Georgia-Pacific Be on Your Mind? (November 17, 2018)
    Jon Putnam
  • Andrea Weiss Jeffries, Emily Tait and Jason Garr, Jones Day, Protecting Artificial Intelligence IP: Patents, Trade Secrets, or Copyrights? (January 2018)
    Andrea Weiss Jeffries
  • Adam R. Brown, Gregory J. Barden, Rebecca Swindells and Indradeep Bhattacharya, Jones Day, Protecting Your Trade Secrets in the UK (June 2019)
    Andrea Weiss Jeffries
  • A Key Distinction: Knowledge, Skills, and Training vs. Trade Secrets
    Andrea Weiss Jeffries
  • Addressing the “Reasonable Efforts” Requirement through Expert Testimony
    James Pooley
  • Keeping Safe with Your Head in the Cloud (July 17, 2019)
    James Pooley

Presentation Material


  • A Trade Secrets Crash Course 2019: What to Learn from the Latest Disputes
    Victoria A. Cundiff
  • Sharing Trade Secrets Across Borders: About China
    Laura Wen-yu Young
  • Preventing Trade Secrets Disputes and Managing Them Right From the Start
    Hannah T. Joseph, Julie McCarthy, Wendy T. Wu
  • Trade Secrets, Ethics and Maintaining Technological Competence
    Jennifer A. Kenedy
  • Litigation High Profile Trade Secrets Litigation
    Neel Chatterjee
  • Litigation High Profile Trade Secrets Litigation
    Neel Chatterjee
  • Trade Secret Damages for Misappropriation of Emerging Technologies
    Amy H. Candido, Jon Putnam
  • What Does the Trade Secrets Future Hold? Cutting Edge Technologies and New Business Methods
    Andrea Weiss Jeffries, Hon. James P. Kleinberg (Ret.), James Pooley

Trade secrets can be among an organization’s most valuable assets at every stage of research, development and commercialization. Trade secrets law can protect cutting edge technologies, profit-enhancing improvements to mature technologies, and a host of valuable information in between. The importance of trade secrets law—and potential risks to trade secrets--is magnified when organizations increasingly collaborate with other companies, sometimes including competitors, in the United States and abroad, and when employees and consultants who have become immersed in trade secrets move among multiple players in the industry. New technologies such as artificial intelligence present new technical and legal challenges for which patent protection may be unavailable or uncertain as an alternative solution for protecting and sharing broad categories of intellectual property. The price of electing to protect information as a trade secret is eternal vigilance, which means that to succeed, organizations must stay on top of the latest developments in protecting trade secrets and litigating and defending against claims of misappropriation. This program brings together experts and thought leaders in the field to help you do just that.

What You Will Learn

  • What are courts, legislatures, prosecutors and economic experts thinking and doing about trade secrets issues?
  • Why do domestic organizations need to think about international trade secrets enforcement?
  • How to make “reasonable” measures to protect trade secrets “workable” measures for your organization?
  • What should lawyers and clients do in the earliest days of a trade secret dispute to reduce trouble later on?
  • How do criminal prosecutions for trade secret theft affect trade secrets protective measures and civil litigation?
  • What is the value of a trade secret and why can this question be so hard to answer?
  • When and how can alternative dispute resolution make sense in trade secret disputes?

Special Feature

  • Learn to navigate potential ethical minefields in trade secrets disputes

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