Protecting Software In The Face Of An Ever-Changing Workforce

In today’s corporate environment a high degree of job mobility is a given, and it’s common for people to work for numerous companies over the course of a career. Combine this fact with another feature of today’s corporate environment, the increasing importance of software as intellectual property, and the result is a potentially significant financial and litigation risk. “Do you know what employees and others are bringing with them when they join your company, or what they are taking when they leave?” asks Lowenstein Sandler attorney Mark Kesslen. He suggests several strategies for minimizing the risks, including reevaluating and updating existing employment agreements and trade secret policies, developing a copyright registration process, and reassessing patent filing strategies.