Protecting Trade Secrets Disclosed to the FDA

There are advantages and disadvantages of keeping your research tools and methods for producing biological and pharmaceutical materials a trade secret. Recently, the FDA Commissioner considered a plan for increased transparency, which may destroy the required confidentiality to maintain a trade secret. We will provide a short primer on trade secret law including the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and the Defense of Trade Secrets Act, and lead a discussion on policies and procedures to protect the trade secrets disclosed to the FDA.