Palm Springs Trade Secrets Lawyer
Palm Springs Trade Secrets Lawyer Sebastian Gibson
Palm Springs Business Attorney Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice in Business
When you’ve poured your time and creativity, and years of your life into building up your business, finding the right Palm Springs trade secrets lawyer to protect it is the best way to ensure all your efforts are not in vain.
Whether you need contracts drafted, copyright or trademark protection, representation in litigation, corporate formation, restructuring or dissolution, or simply down to earth business advice, you deserve the finest in legal service.
Sebastian Gibson offers business owners in the Palm Springs area with more than 40 years of representing business and corporate clients and is ready today to assist you today in your endeavors to grow and prosper without legal worries.
When you work with Palm Springs Trade Secrets Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, you’re working with an attorney who is named a Top Lawyer in the prestigious Palm Springs Life Magazine year after year, and who’s been named a “Superb” Lawyer, their highest rating, by Avvo, which rates attorneys all across the U.S.
In Palm Springs Trade Secrets Lawyer Sebastian Gibson you have one of those rare attorneys with experience not only representing small and medium sized businesses in California, but a lawyer who has also represented multi-national corporations internationally as well while working in London.
The Secret Is Out, Palm Springs Trade Secrets Attorney Sebastian Gibson is a Palm Springs Top Lawyer
At the Law Firm of Sebastian Gibson we’ve been protecting the intellectual property of clients for over a quarter of a century. With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, when you need a Palm Springs trade secrets lawyer, we can assist you in the Coachella Valley, Orange County and throughout Southern California.
Sebastian Gibson has been recognized by Palm Springs Life Magazine as One of the Top Lawyers of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011. He’s been called “Brilliant” and “A Legend.” If you want a top Palm Springs trade secrets lawyer on your side, call Sebastian Gibson. Call us today at (760) 776-1810.
Trade Secrets Law in California are governed by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act which was adopted by the state of California and can be found at California Civil Code Section 3426.
For an item, method, process, technique or information to be deemed a trade secret, the information must have independent economic value, actual or potential not generally known to the public or to persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use. The alleged trade secret must have been maintained in a safe place and not be discoverable by the public or non-essential employees.
A trade secret is something that is not known by the general public and has value due to the fact that it is not generally known. Reasonable steps must be taken to keep the item secret in order for a trade secret to be held to exist under California law. With software, encryption is one way of protecting it’s secret nature.
As an example, a trade secrets can be a list containing specialized information on customers especially if the purchase decisions of the customers on the list are influenced primarily by their special needs or susceptibilities, as opposed to price, quality, reliable delivery or service.
A trade secret can also be a chemical process. Other examples of trade secrets are the formula for Coca Cola and the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken. For every invention that is patented, there may be ten inventions that are stored safely in vaults as trade secrets.
The advantage of keeping an invention as a trade secret instead of patenting the item is that the trade secret can remain a secret indefinitely. A patent on the other hand lasts only 20 years from its filing date. Some inventions, however, simply don’t lend well to being kept as trade secrets. If that’s the case with an invention, the inventor should consider getting a patent.
The Uniform Trade Secrets Act provides for injunctive, relief and damages. If the misappropriation of the trade secret was in bad faith, willful or malicious, a court may also award attorney’s fees to the plaintiff.
Sebastian Gibson, The Palm Springs Trade Secrets Lawyer For Your Business
With law degrees in both the U.S. and the U.K. and over 40 years of practice in both the U.S. and internationally, Sebastian Gibson has been recognized by Palm Springs Life Magazine as One of the Top Lawyers for the past 12 years and by Avvo as a “Superb” Lawyer for good reason.
Today, Sebastian Gibson has been frequently interviewed on radio and TV for his expertise. The author of thousands of articles on the internet, Sebastian Gibson has also written for the Los Angeles Daily Journal newspaper and the San Francisco Daily Journal and is the author of book published in 2012.
If you’re looking for a Palm Springs trade secrets lawyer for your business, consider Sebastian Gibson. With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, Sebastian Gibson can assist you with your trade secrets litigation throughout California.
