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Traverse City Trade Secret Attorney

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Traverse City trade secret attorneys Revision Legal, help businesses protect the information that gives them a edge over the competition. Trade secrets are an often-underutilized form of intellectual property. But when it’s at risk of being disclosed, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Michigan Trade Secret Law

Picture this. A company has spent years analyzing its non-public customer data to create a a program, compilation, or formula that allows the company to find buying customers more often and service them at a lower price. However, a high-level executive has recently left to join a competing business. Can he take the company’s work with him? What would your company do?

Traditionally, businesses use confidentiality, non-competition, and non-solicitation agreements to protect their business assets. But the Michigan Uniform Trade Secrets Act (MUTSA) can also provide an avenue of relief. Specifically, the MUTSA gives businesses the option to stop, or prevent, the unauthorized use or disclosure of trade secrets.

How to Define a Trade Secret

Michigan law defines a trade secret as “information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that is both of the following:

(i) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use.

(ii) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.”

Although state law provides a definition, many trade secret cases turn on whether the information at issue actually represents a trade secret. For example, vendor lists, customer lists, and customer information may or may not be a protectable trade secret, depending on the facts of each case. For more information about how these groups of information can be protected as a trade secret, click here.

Trade Secret Litigation

Traverse City trade secret attorneys Revision Legal have prosecuted and defended trade secret cases. Whether your businesses need to prevent the disclosure of information, or you need to defend a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets, Revision Legal can help.

Contact Revision Legal today to schedule a consultation regarding your trade secret issue by completing the contact form on this page or by calling 231-714-0100.

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