{"id":11225,"date":"2026-09-03T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/offres\/audit-secret-des-affaires\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:46:36","slug":"audit-secret-des-affaires","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/offres\/audit-secret-des-affaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade secrets audit and protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chapo\">Trade secret protection depends less on a standard clause than on reasonable, consistent and documented measures. The risks come from mobile employees, partners and suppliers, generative artificial intelligence, the cloud, remote working, visitors, data rooms and joint research projects. The trade secret audit turns valuable but diffuse information into identified, protected and provable assets.<\/p>\n<h2>The need<\/h2>\n<p>Articles L. 151-1 et seq. of the French Commercial Code protect information that is not generally known, that has commercial value because it is secret and that is subject to reasonable protective measures. The third condition is the one on which companies fail in court: they cannot demonstrate the measures taken. The audit is designed to build that evidence before any dispute and to reduce the opportunities for leaks.<\/p>\n<h2>What you receive<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An inventory and classification of confidential assets, with a taxonomy adapted to the company.<\/li>\n<li>A map of flows, access rights, third parties and moments of risk.<\/li>\n<li>A review of sample contracts and internal policies: employment contracts, confidentiality agreements, research agreements, supplier terms.<\/li>\n<li>A warning-signs report oriented towards evidence.<\/li>\n<li>A legal, organisational and technical plan.<\/li>\n<li>Training, an evidence file of reasonable measures and an annual checkpoint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How we work<\/h2>\n<p>First, a diagnosis based on a fifty-point questionnaire and management interviews. Next, a protection sprint implementing the priority corrections: register of secrets, clauses, onboarding and offboarding procedures for employees, rules for the use of digital tools. Finally, an annual checkpoint updating the inventory and the evidence file. The firm works with the company\u2019s human resources, IT and security functions and, where useful, with its cybersecurity providers.<\/p>\n<h2>The incident and litigation side<\/h2>\n<p>When misappropriation is suspected, the firm acts urgently: protective measures, bailiff reports, seizure, action before the commercial court or the judicial court, coordination with any criminal proceedings. The confidentiality protection measures provided by the Commercial Code make it possible to debate sensitive documents without disclosing them. A prior audit makes these actions far more effective, because evidence of the secret and of the reasonable measures already exists.<\/p>\n<h2>Who it is for<\/h2>\n<p>Industrial, deeptech and biotech companies, software companies, groups with mobile research teams, companies engaged in research partnerships or data rooms, funds wishing to secure the information assets of a portfolio company.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<h3>Do trade secrets replace patents?<\/h3>\n<p>No. The two complement each other. A patent protects a disclosed invention for twenty years. A trade secret protects what is not disclosed, without time limit, but with no monopoly against independent discovery. The audit helps decide between the two for each asset.<\/p>\n<h3>What are reasonable protective measures?<\/h3>\n<p>A set of measures proportionate to the value of the information: identification, access restriction, confidentiality clauses, marking, training, offboarding procedures, traceability. The law sets no list: the audit builds one for the company.<\/p>\n<h3>Does the audit cover the use of artificial intelligence?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. The rules for employees\u2019 use of generative artificial intelligence tools are among the measures examined, as these tools are a frequent leakage channel.<\/p>\n<p>To arrange a diagnosis, <a href=\"\/en\/french-patent-litigator-contact-us\/\">contact the firm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"da-maillage\">\n<p class=\"da-maillage__titre\">Further reading<\/p>\n<ul class=\"da-maillage__liste\">\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/fields-of-expertise\/trade-secrets-attorney\/\">Our trade secrets practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/trade-secrets\/\">Trade secrets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/know-how\/\">Know-how<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/confidentiality-agreement\/\">Non-disclosure agreement (\u201cNDA\u201d)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La protection du secret des affaires d\u00e9pend moins d\u2019une clause standard que de mesures raisonnables, coh\u00e9rentes et document\u00e9es. Les risques viennent des salari\u00e9s mobiles, des partenaires et fournisseurs, de l\u2019intelligence artificielle g\u00e9n\u00e9rative, du cloud, du t\u00e9l\u00e9travail, des visiteurs, des data rooms et des projets de recherche communs. L\u2019audit du secret des affaires transforme des informations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":11220,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Audit du secret des affaires : mesures et preuve | Dhenne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Audit du secret des affaires : inventaire des actifs confidentiels, mesures de protection raisonnables, dossier de preuve et plan d\u2019action.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/offres\/audit-secret-des-affaires\/\" \/>\n<meta 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