Potter Clarkson’s Trade Secret Registry

Potter Clarkson’s Trade Secret Registry: the simplest, most secure way to safeguard your trade secrets

Potter Clarkson’s Trade Secret Registry (powered by Aon) is the simplest way to track and protect the invaluable trade secrets at the heart of your business.

It’s not just the perfect tool for simplifying the administrative side of your portfolio - it also adds an additional level of security that more traditional alternatives can’t provide.

WHY DO YOU NEED A TRADE SECRETS REGISTRY?

Increasingly, intellectual property is a company’s most valuable asset. However, while most businesses design increasingly sophisticated strategies to protect their patents and trade marks, recent studies show many companies don’t afford their trade secrets the same degree of protection - despite their value.

Sometimes this is because a business hasn’t taken the time to identify them.

Sometimes it’s because they feel they don’t have any.

This is certainly not the case. Almost all businesses have trade secrets.

Protecting them is essential, a task that is becoming not only more important than ever, but also more challenging. That’s exactly what SafeGuard - a straightforward way to identify, protect and manage your trade secrets - was designed to help with.

However, once you’ve identified your trade secrets and are taking steps to protect them, you need a way to manage them.

As you might imagine, this can involve considerable administration and compliance work. Nevertheless, the right technology will instantly make the process quicker, easier and more straightforward.

Potter Clarkson’s Trade Secret Registry is the right technology.

WHAT IS POTTER CLARKSON'S TRADE SECRET REGISTRY?

Potter Clarkson’s Trade Secret Registry (powered by Aon) is a bespoke, blockchain-enabled platform designed specifically to provide you with the simplest and most efficient way to identify, record and manage your trade secrets.

To minimise the risk of trade secret theft and maximise the security under which they are stored, our Trade Secret Registry is totally secure. It ensures all assets stay behind your organisation’s firewall using your own security controls.

Once you sign up to it, our Trade Secret Registry instantly allows you to:

Actively protect and manage your trade secrets
Ensure your trade secrets are authenticated and inaccessible outside your organisation
Make sure your information is unique and cannot be duplicated
Provide you with greater management control over your trade secrets
Prove you own your trade secrets
Satisfy any additional legal requirements

HOW DOES THE POTTER CLARKSON TRADE SECRET REGISTRY WORK?

The power of the Potter Clarkson Trade Secret Registry is that it simplifies a complex, time-consuming yet business-critical task.

It makes inputting and maintaining your trade secrets as simple as possible.

It makes accessing your trade secrets as simple as possible.

It makes ensuring your trade secrets are totally secure as simple as possible.

Of course, we’ll provide you with access to the demo version of the Trade Secret Registry - not to mention offer full training and live support once you become a user - but here’s a basic overview of how it works.

Creating divisions allows you to classify your trade secrets in exactly the same way as you classify the various parts of your business, whether that’s by business function, market sector or on a project basis.

Because you can use the same language you’re already familiar with internally, it means you and your team will find the system more intuitive and easier to use. This in turn will encourage a greater take-up and faster implementation across the business, giving you maximum value.
The aim of the Trade Secret Registry is to ensure you have documented your company’s trade secret policies, procedures, and trade secret governance processes.

Perhaps you’ve already got these set out but, if not, our SafeGuard audit can take care of this for you.

Once you have the necessary policies in place, you can record them under safeguards in your Trade Secret Registry. They will then be automatically applied to every trade secret you add to your registry.

To ensure the highest possible levels of security and flexibility, you can also create variances to your safeguards for a specific trade secret when you add or edit it.
Once you’ve added and saved a trade secret, you can switch to the proof of existence tab.

This is where you will create an immutable record and timestamp - your digital fingerprint - of the document that records your trade secret.

While this fingerprint uniquely identifies your document, it can’t be used to recreate it.

At no stage will Potter Clarkson or Aon ever have access to any of the secrets or supporting documentation you record. No information will ever leave your local firewalled environment.

We only store information that allows us to verify the existence of your trade secrets in the event it’s ever needed.

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Ready to simplify the process of managing your trade secrets?

If you'd like to find out more, please download a copy of our brochure. Better still, why not set up a free trial so you can see exactly how our Trade Secret Registry works.