Following the whitepaper on “Reasonable steps” to protect trade secrets, (you can find a brief overview and the link to the paper here, CREATe.org published its Eight steps to secure trade secrets.
The purpose of this guide is to help understand the management system component of trade secret protection. It provides you with practical advice and tools so you can more efficiently develop and implement a trade secret protection program that is appropriate for your company and the risks it faces.
This guide starts by providing a roadmap for you to use in starting, or enhancing, a trade secret protection program. Next, the Guide looks at each of the eight areas of an effective trade secret protection program in more detail. For each area – called business process categories – there are specific activities that you can use as a checklist against your current program or for improvement project ideas. These check- lists are just a starting point – each activity can be broken down into a greater level of detail or be fine-tuned to your specific priorities.