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Several factors make leakage of confidential information a growing issue: Manufacturing and service delivery have moved off-shore, increasing exposure to risk; competition to be first-to-market has increased; and social media or ‘whistle-blower’ sites provide an ever-present temptation to divulge sensitive information.
Corrs helps clients manage their confidential information, from strategies to ensure information security, to litigation to preventing the misuse of disclosed trade secrets.
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Sigma Pharmaceuticals
Where an agreement for a local sponsor of a therapeutic good comes to an end, to what extent can the licensor rely on alleged confidential information to prevent the marketing of a competing product by the former licensee?
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From time to time you will be faced with a step which is unusual and not generally taken by lawyers. But if followed in the appropriate way it can save the client considerable time and money.
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Sigma Pharmaceuticals
Where an agreement for a local sponsor of a therapeutic good comes to an end, to what extent can the licensor rely on alleged confidential information to prevent the marketing of a competing product by the former licensee?
This is the difficult question at the heart of a case between Sigma Pharmaceuticals and its former licensing partner, Vifor International.
Corrs is acting for Sigma in a highly technical dispute over whether Sigma misused confidential information, owned by Vifor, when Sigma registered its own injectable iron supplement with the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
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PPSA: What it means for research institutions
Australia’s new Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (PPSA) has introduced radical changes to the law in relation to personal property. Research institutions must make sure that their equipment and other property is properly protected.
Do you have the tactical and strategic edge in litigation?
From time to time you will be faced with a step which is unusual and not generally taken by lawyers. But if followed in the appropriate way it can save the client considerable time and money.
IP for free? A ‘Quirky’ idea that reinvents innovation
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Special Counsel Sydney +61 2 9210 6228Daniel Plane
Special Counsel Melbourne +61 3 9672 3226David Smith
Partner Melbourne +61 3 9672 3345David Yates
Special Counsel Perth +61 8 9460 1806Eddie Scuderi
Partner Brisbane +61 7 3228 9319Helen Clarke
Partner Brisbane +61 7 3228 9818Jim Micallef
Special Counsel Sydney +61 2 9210 6714Matthew Swinn
Partner Melbourne +61 3 9672 3155Odette Gourley
Partner Sydney +61 2 9210 6066Stephen Stern
Partner Melbourne +61 3 9672 3148