Sometimes before new employees leave their jobs to join your company, they copy valuable company secret information onto portable thumb drives or they send that information to their personal webmail accounts. As the new employer, you may be hiring those employees because they have valuable information — yet if you don’t want to be targeted by a lawsuit, along with the employees, you do not want them to provide to you, or use, their former employers’ trade secrets.
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The Perils of Employees' Trade Secret Plundering
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel June 8, 2015 11:08 AMSometimes before new employees leave their jobs to join your company, they copy valuable company secret information onto portable thumb drives or they send that information to their personal webmail accounts. As the new employer, you may be hiring those employees because they have valuable information — yet if you don’t want to be targeted by a lawsuit, along with the employees, you do not want them to provide to you, or use, their former employers’ trade secrets.