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Legal Aspects of Protecting Trade Secrets and Technical Know-How
A practical programme in trade secrets and know-how for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Legal exposure on trade secrets and know-how accumulates through routine decisions taken without advice. The cost of getting secrets and know-how wrong is rarely the judgment; it is the years spent reaching it. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from the legal and contractual practice discipline, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. Organisations that document trade secrets and know-how properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with this aspect of legal and contractual practice. The programme converts secrets and know-how from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on trade secrets and know-how and revise it on evidence. Most organisations already have a policy on secrets and know-how; far fewer can show it working. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the practice within legal and contractual practice broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Align secrets and know-how with the wider objectives of the contract portfolio rather than optimising it in isolation.
Structure the approval and signature authority applying to trade secrets and know-how.
Manage variations and change to secrets and know-how without losing contractual position.
Anticipate the objections that trade secrets and know-how will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Design a practical operating method for secrets and know-how that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Prepare and defend claims arising under trade secrets and know-how with contemporaneous evidence.
Who Should Attend
Risk managers assessing legal exposure from trade secrets and know-how.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by secrets and know-how.
Commercial and procurement managers negotiating trade secrets and know-how.
Compliance officers assessing obligations under secrets and know-how.
Business partners who must understand trade secrets and know-how well enough to challenge it.
Company secretaries and governance officers overseeing secrets and know-how.
Course Modules
Trade secrets and know-how: notices, records and time bars
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in trade secrets and know-how and what to ignore
- Identify where judgement in trade secrets and know-how is legitimate and where it is not.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in secrets and know-how.
- Define the termination triggers in trade secrets and know-how and the consequences of each.
- Reduce the variation in how secrets and know-how is carried out between teams.
Session 2Drafting secrets and know-how so ambiguity does not decide it later
- Standardise recurring clauses in trade secrets and know-how into an approved template.
- Prepare the claim narrative for secrets and know-how while the facts are fresh.
- Diarise every notice period and time bar in trade secrets and know-how.
- Identify which party bears each material risk under secrets and know-how, and whether that is intended.
Secrets and know-how: dispute resolution and forum selection
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Notices and time bars in secrets and know-how that are easy to miss
- Define the trigger that would require trade secrets and know-how to be redesigned.
- Close out actions on secrets and know-how rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Handle each variation to trade secrets and know-how in writing, with price and time consequence agreed.
- Record contemporaneous evidence of performance under secrets and know-how as it happens.
Session 2Choosing the dispute route for secrets and know-how deliberately
- Verify six months later that changes to trade secrets and know-how have held.
- Agree what will be standardised in secrets and know-how and what will not.
- Review the definitions in trade secrets and know-how for terms doing heavy commercial work.
- Estimate the resource secrets and know-how requires to run as designed.
Secrets and know-how: drafting and deliberate risk allocation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving secrets and know-how from approval to execution
- Protect confidential information and intellectual property shared under trade secrets and know-how.
- Assess whether the dispute route in secrets and know-how suits value and relationship.
- Identify the compliance obligations trade secrets and know-how triggers and who tracks them.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to secrets and know-how.
Session 2Exiting trade secrets and know-how without avoidable liability
- Confirm signature authority for trade secrets and know-how against the delegation matrix.
- Map the handovers in secrets and know-how between functions and secure them.
- Draft the minimum viable contract template for trade secrets and know-how.
- Record the reasoning for any departure from the standard position on secrets and know-how.
Secrets and know-how: variations, change and preserved position
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support secrets and know-how
- Benchmark the organisation's trade secrets and know-how against comparable operations.
- Set out the decisions in secrets and know-how that require sign-off and by whom.
- Establish who administers trade secrets and know-how day to day once it is signed.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates secrets and know-how is under control.
Session 2Security and payment protection within secrets and know-how
- Confirm bonds, guarantees and insurance supporting trade secrets and know-how are valid and current.
- Review closed contracts on secrets and know-how for lessons before drafting the next one.
- Set out how exceptions to trade secrets and know-how are requested and approved.
- Remove steps in secrets and know-how that add effort without adding assurance.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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