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18 July 2025 · Confidential Information, Contracts, NDA, Partnerships, Strategy, Trade secrets

“When an investor you pitched everything to, tells you they are now doing something competitive….It’s just a terrible feeling!”

“I Feel Kind Of Stupid Now,” Rugolo Added. “Because We Talked For So Long. I Met With Them so Many Times and Demo’d all Their People —Talking About All Our Ideas.” Not the first time and not the last! But how do you protect your business in this scenario? Jason Rugolo, founder and CEO of […]

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19 January 2025 · Articles, Information Security, Knowledge Transfer, NDA, Partnerships, Trade secrets

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗗𝗼?

𝗟𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁! ‘We are in a partnership so it will be good’. ‘We have an NDA so we can tell them everything’. ‘Working in cafes in Scandinavia it is fine you can go […]

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7 November 2024 · Innovation, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Partnerships

How Do You Protect Your Innovation in Partnerships?

The human species survived because we could communicate and share ideas about what worked and what did not. How to light a fire using flints and tinder, how best to catch a woolly mammoth, how to successfully raise crops on clay based of soil; you get the idea. We innovate better when ideas from different […]

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5 November 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, M&A Due Diligence, NDA, Partnerships, Tech Transfer, Trade secrets

$605M for Trade Secret Theft of ‘Innovative Approach to Selling Renewable Fuels’

The jury also found that the trade secret theft was willful and malicious, allowing the Court to potentially triple the total damages! Choose your partners carefully. You are flattered when Big Co who also happens to provide your major route to market offers to buy your business. It has been 13 years of hard slog […]

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Information is at risk even after signing an NDA

15 October 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Knowledge Transfer, NDA, Partnerships, Trade secrets

Information Floods Out Of Your Business After An NDA

‘We have an NDA so it is fine we can share everything’! How much value is being lost from your business via sensitive information and knowledge being shared with partners with whom you have an NDA? An NDA is not a cover all. Ideally an NDA is nothing more than a ‘permit to have a […]

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3 September 2024 · Articles, Cyber Security, Partnerships, Tech Transfer

Do Your Customers Treat Your Information and Trade Secrets With Care?

Was a cyber security weak spot for the US Department of Defence one of their suppliers?! Yes, they signed the NDA and had a long standing contract. But did they have the same processes and culture? The US government just sued Georgia Tech University for not using anti virus software despite signing US Department of […]

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2 September 2024 · Articles, Brand, NDA, Partnerships, Trade secrets

Former Partners Paying Lip Service To Trade Secrets End Up In Court

Partnership With Starbucks Loses Gloss Over Trade Secrets Loss Red Flag When Partner Refuses To Sign NDA ? Just who had the idea first? Coffee flavoured lipstick and lip gloss. Balmuccino say Starbucks refused to sign an NDA in 2017 when they presented the coffee flavoured lipstick concept, later running off and developing it for themselves. […]

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