Securing Your Competitive Edge After the FTC’s Rule: Using Non-Compete Agreements and Other Steps to Protect Trade Secrets (RECORDING)
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Protecting company innovations is a critical part of any organization's long-term success. This webinar will examine how employee non-compete agreements fit into a trade secret management program following the rise and apparent fall of the FTC's ban on non-compete clauses. Areas that will be covered include:
- Backdrop to FTC's non-compete ban; the FTC's rule; and the litigations invalidating the FTC's rule
- The current state of restrictions and impediments to reliance on employee non-compete agreements
- Other steps to prevent employee misuse of your client's trade secrets.
Kenneth Corsello
Trade Secrets Counsel
IBM Corp.
Ken Corsello is IBM’s US Trade Secrets counsel, where he also focuses on various other IP issues, including drafting and negotiating agreements for patent transactions. Prior to joining IBM, Ken was a law clerk to Chief Judge Glenn Archer at the Federal Circuit; an Associate Solicitor in the USPTO; and in private practice at law firms in Washington, D.C. He has a B.S. from SUNY Stony Brook, J.D. from Catholic University, and LL.M. from George Washington University. A frequent speaker on trade secrets issues, Ken was chair of IPO’s Trade Secrets committee for 6 years and the principal drafter of IPO’s 2023 comments in response to the FTC’s proposed rule banning non-compete agreements.
Robert Surette
Shareholder & President
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
Robert Surrette is a Shareholder and serves as President of McAndrews. He focuses his practice on the resolution of intellectual property and technology-related disputes with an emphasis on patent, trademark, trade secret and trade dress litigation. For the last 20 years, Bob has counseled a leading global medical device manufacturer on numerous litigation and transactional matters.
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