Impact of Defend Trade Secrets Act on Corporate Trade Secrets Management

The Impact of Defend Trade Secrets Act on Corporate Trade Secret Management.

Welcome to the ipQuickPoll The Impact of Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) on Corporate Trade Secret Management.

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1. In which of the following industry categories does your company have a significant line of business? (Select all that apply.) *This question is required.

2. What type of proprietary information does your company identify and manage as trade secrets? (Select all that apply.)

Manufacturing-related trade secrets (e.g., manufacturing processes, formulations, etc.)
Technical and engineering-related trade secrets (e.g., engineering tools, source code, etc.)
Business and marketing-related trade secrets (e.g., customer lists, pricing information, etc.)
Deployment and client implementation practices
Evaluation methods
Analytical tests
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

3. DTSA is an incentive to hold more patentable inventions as trade secrets.

4. Compared with 2015, what changes does your company expect in the number of patentable inventions to be held as trade secrets in 2016?

5. DTSA is an added incentive to improving your company's trade secret management.

6. DTSA provides an increased incentive to identify, capture, inventory and protect your company’s potential trade secret information.

7. How will the passage of DTSA effect your company's current enforcement of trade secret misappropriations?

8. Does your company plan on using DTSA to enforce trade secret rights?

We will file in federal court
We will file in state court
We will file in both state and federal courts
Undecided
Other/ Comments -Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

9. How will your company comply with the notice requirement (whistleblower immunity provision, employer notice requirement, etc.) (Select all that apply.)

Have updated agreements
Have updated employment contracts
Have updated employee policy manual
Plan to update
No plan/ Haven’t considered it
Updated other documents - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.
Other/Comments - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

10. Does your company license its trade secrets to a third party?

11. Are there any questions that we should have asked in this survey, but did not or do you have general comments?