New technologies are being repurposed for Early Case Assessment (ECA) in this ever-changing global economy chockfull of intellectual property theft and cybertheft. These increasingly hot issues are now compelling lawyers to become savvier about how the technologies they use to identify IP theft and related issues in eDiscovery. One of the more useful, but often overlooked tools in this regard is Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology. Traditionally a data breach and security tool, DLP has emerged as yet another tool in the Litigator’s Tool Belt™ that can be applied in eDiscovery.
DLP technology utilizes Vector Machine Learning (VML) to detect intellectual property, such as product designs, source code and trademarked language that are deemed proprietary and confidential. This technology eliminates the need for developing laborious keyword-based policies or fingerprinting documents. While a corporation can certainly customize these policies, there are off the shelf materials that make the technology easy to deploy.
An exemplary use case that spotlights how DLP could have been deployed in the eDiscovery context is the case of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours v. Kolon Industries. In DuPont, a jury issued a $919 million verdict after finding that the defendant manufacturer stole critical elements of the formula for Kevlar, a closely guarded and highly profitable DuPont trade secret. Despite the measures that were taken to protect the trade secret, a former DuPont consultant successfully copied key information relating to Kevlar on to a CD that was later disseminated to the manufacturer’s executives. All of this came to light in the recently unsealed criminal indictments the U.S. Department of Justice obtained against the manufacturer and several of its executives.
To Continue Reading: Click Here
------------------------------------------------------
Source: e-discovery 2.0
By: Allison Walton
DLP technology utilizes Vector Machine Learning (VML) to detect intellectual property, such as product designs, source code and trademarked language that are deemed proprietary and confidential. This technology eliminates the need for developing laborious keyword-based policies or fingerprinting documents. While a corporation can certainly customize these policies, there are off the shelf materials that make the technology easy to deploy.
An exemplary use case that spotlights how DLP could have been deployed in the eDiscovery context is the case of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours v. Kolon Industries. In DuPont, a jury issued a $919 million verdict after finding that the defendant manufacturer stole critical elements of the formula for Kevlar, a closely guarded and highly profitable DuPont trade secret. Despite the measures that were taken to protect the trade secret, a former DuPont consultant successfully copied key information relating to Kevlar on to a CD that was later disseminated to the manufacturer’s executives. All of this came to light in the recently unsealed criminal indictments the U.S. Department of Justice obtained against the manufacturer and several of its executives.
To Continue Reading: Click Here
------------------------------------------------------
Source: e-discovery 2.0
By: Allison Walton
No comments:
Post a Comment