Does your business need protection from unfair competition, or assistance with safeguarding trade secrets or know-how?

Unfair Competition

Unfair competition involves misleading, deceptive, or unethical practices used by individuals to gain an advantage over their competitors. These practices may include:

• Making false claims about products or services through deceptive advertising to mislead and manipulate economic behavior or harm a competitor’
• Trademark infringements, such as using a similar logo without the owner’s consent to profit from their reputation;
• Spreading false information about a competitor to damage their reputation.

Trade Secret

A trade secret is any commercial, know-how, or technological information that meets three conditions:

1. It is not widely known or easily accessible to those who typically work with this type of information;
2. It has commercial value precisely because of its confidentiality;
3. Measures have been taken to keep it secret by the person who controls it.

The dissemination of a trade secret is among the most common unfair trade practices.

Trade secret theft refers to the illegal acquisition and use of a competitor’s protected and confidential information. This unethical and often illegal practice can seriously harm a business, as trade secrets typically cover critical aspects such as business strategies, product designs, formulas, customer lists, and other sensitive information that provide a company with a market advantage.

Protection of Know-How

“Know-how” refers to practical knowledge, skills, and experience that are not protected by registration but are crucial to the operation of a business or the development of products and services.

Know-how protection is a complex service integral to good business management. Let the IPfabrika team assist you with the preparation of:

• Agreements to protect the confidentiality of your know-how;
• Contracts for the transfer of your know-how;
• Models for the protection of know-how according to its constituent elements.

Protecting trade secrets and know-how is key to the competitiveness of any company. These assets represent an important part of intellectual property, and their misuse can lead to significant losses. Legal protection against unfair competition includes measures to prevent the leakage of confidential information and to safeguard against actions that may harm the company’s business interests. Effective protection ensures security and stability in a market where fair competition is essential.