Trade Secret Counseling & Litigation

Honigman’s trade secret lawyers define, protect, and enforce trade secrets for clients in advanced manufacturing, life sciences, automotive and companies with IP‑driven assets through strategic proactive counseling, investigations, and litigation.

Proactive, strategic trade secret counseling for today’s business environment

Defining trade secrets is a strategic, business driven decision. The trade secret lawyers at Honigman possess keen insights of how trade secrets function and deploy a bespoke approach to protect proprietary information while supporting broader operational and strategic goals.

Providing companies the full range of trade secret services protecting commercial interests

Clients rely on Honigman’s trade secret lawyers for the full range of issues involving employee misappropriation of customer data, formulas, patents, and other proprietary information that violates confidentiality obligations, restrictive covenants, and contractual arrangements.

Comprehensive approach for your trade secret protection

Clients rely on Honigman’s full service offering for a cross-disciplinary approach to nimbly address swiftly evolving trade secrets matters. The trade secret team coordinates across patents protection, IP litigation, employment, antitrust, corporate and regulatory teams to deliver strategies with your priorities at its core.

Senior lawyers with decades of experience and knowledge protect trade secrets

Honigman’s trade secret team is composed of skilled lawyers, many with decades of experience focused on trade secret protection and litigation, across the firm including intellectual property, litigation, labor and employment, antitrust and competition, and regulatory

Trusted lawyers skilled in the knowledge and nuances of your industry

We apply a sector-based strategy for trade secret counseling. Our experience is vast covering a range of industries old and new – manufacturing, automotive, financial services, life sciences, and tech – protecting decades of established trade secrets to novel, emerging IP.

Representative Matters

• Obtained multimillion-dollar jury verdict in a trade secret misappropriation case against former officers who had absconded with trade secrets and other proprietary information to start a competing business.
• Defended enterprise management and consulting firm in federal trade secret litigation against competitor.
• Represented manufacturing plaintiffs in trade secrets misappropriation and breach of contract action, securing favorable settlement.
• Secured a preliminary injunction against a company threatening to expose significant company trade secrets relating to a groundbreaking new product, and negotiated a favorable settlement after multiple mediation sessions.
• Took over as counsel for plaintiff in trade secret case with competitor after adverse rulings, achieving favorable reversal at appellate level.
• Within the course of four months, obtained temporary restraining orders in three different cases involving allegations of trade secret theft by former employees and contractors, in each case successfully recovering trade secrets and protecting clients’ interests.
• Represented Counterclaim-Plaintiff in a trade secret misappropriation, unfair-competition and breach-of-contract matter involving healthcare software systems, securing nine-figure jury verdict.
• Successfully defended trade secret claims in federal court brought by competitor accusing defendant of stealing purported secret manufacturing designs, and negotiated favorable settlement.
• Successfully represented employees of abusive employer who false accused them of retaining trade secrets after departing company.
• As a mediator, negotiated a resolution of a contentious trade secret dispute between rival restaurants.
• Represented Plaintiff Tier-1 automotive supplier in trade secret and breach-of-contract case against competitor and former employee.