Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property: A Practical Guide to Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents & Trade Secrets

Protecting Your Information through Nondisclosure Agreements

A thorough employment agreement includes provisions prohibiting employees from disclosing a company's confidential information, but such clauses can also be presented to employees to sign as standalone agreements or can be placed in employee manuals (as long as employees are required to sign the manuals). See Figure 19-4 for a simple nondisclosure clause that employees can be required to sign.

Figure 19-3. Nonsolicitation clauses.

Unilateral Provision Precluding Solicitation of Employees
Client agrees that during the term of this Agreement, and for a period of one (1) year after its termination or expiration, it will not directly or indirectly solicit, hire, or otherwise retain as an ...