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Protecting Confidential Information in Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Disputes
As technology patent disputes become increasingly cross-border, the handling of confidential information is becoming a critical strategic issue. This session will examine how companies can manage disclosure obligations around licence agreements, supply chain contracts, technical evidence and third-party commercial information when parallel proceedings are running across multiple courts.
- Explore the practical limits of confidentiality clubs, attorneys’ eyes-only regimes, permitted-use restrictions and deletion obligations, particularly where different courts take different approaches to the same confidential material.
- Consider whether ADR can offer a more controlled route for producing sensitive information before litigation escalates.
- Examine who should sit within a confidentiality club, including trade-offs for excluding in-house counsel from material they need to advise the business.
