Intellectual Property Theft
contract employee resigned and took and then deleted documents from computer, including customer call list, customer invoices, etc. Customers have been contacted. What is legal recourse for us?
Re: Intellectual Property Theft
Theft of intellectual property is as serious and actionable as theft of physical property. Depending on the facts you have a number of options. You can file a complaint for money damages and you can file a petition for an injunction, a court order, keeping the former employee from contacting any of your customers. These cases are very complicated, but if you have enough money at stake you should contact a lawyer to help you. Also, you should have a lawyer conduct an intellectual property audit to suggest ways to make sure this does not happen again. For more information check out my website, www.tradesecretprotection.com
