Protecting the company’s information assets
Know-how is one of a company’s most valuable assets. Technological information, production processes, operational methodologies, commercial data, algorithms, software and databases can represent a key competitive advantage, provided they are correctly identified, managed and kept confidential.
LGV Avvocati assists clients in protecting these assets, supporting them at every stage: from the identification and classification of confidential information to the implementation of the organisational, technical and documentary measures necessary to ensure their protection.
We also carry out know-how audits, analysing production processes, research and development, business procedures and information flows. We support clients in regulating access to physical and digital archives, ensuring the traceability of information and providing staff training, so that their information assets are properly protected in day-to-day operations.
We also manage the contractual protection of know-how in dealings with employees, contractors, consultants, suppliers and business partners, drawing up confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure clauses and contracts relating to research, development, testing, production and supply.
Where confidential information is misappropriated, used or disclosed without authorisation, we assist clients in taking protective measures, resorting, where necessary, to the description, seizure and other means of securing and preserving evidence. We also coordinate complex and simultaneous operations, with the support of technical consultants, IT experts, investigators and bailiffs.
LGV Avvocati’s experience enables us to integrate the protection of know-how with that provided under patent, copyright and unfair competition law, as well as to coordinate civil proceedings and, where the conditions are met, criminal proceedings.
Finally, we assist companies, directors, managers and employees who are called upon to defend themselves against allegations relating to the alleged misappropriation or disclosure of trade secrets.