Trade Secrets
Trade secrets often constitute some of the most valuable assets of a business, ranging from proprietary manufacturing methods, to proprietary methods of pricing, to proprietary information regarding customers and business strategies. Such highly valuable knowledge is often concentrated in the most mobile assets any business has, its employees, whose activities can place valuable proprietary information at sudden and unexpected risk, as, for example, when a long-time key employee leaves to work for a competitor or uses company information for personal advantage.