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Chawton Innovation Services Limited The Stables

Gosport Road Chawton

Alton Hampshire GU34 1SH

Telephone: +44 (0) 7825 081941

Chawton Innovation Services

Providing help to companies and organisations in the areas of Innovation and Intellectual

Property Management.

Hazel Trade Secret Asset Management Tool




Telephone: +44 (0) 7825 081941




Hazel Trade Secret Asset Management Tool

Trade secrets are an important, but an invisible component of a company's intellectual property portfolio of assets. They can add tremendous business value, so they need to be properly and professionally managed and looked after.

T r a d e s e c r e t s should be on the agenda of any in-‐house intellectual property function as well as on the agenda of any Legal or IP Firm advising organisations. Trade secret legislation is clearly strengthening in key jurisdictions, interestingly at a time when other forms of IP seem to be weakening, at least in some locations.

M a n y companies however fail to create a "culture of confidentiality" when it comes to protecting their valuable trade secrets. If a company does not take reasonable steps to protect such assets, then such assets may become extremely fragile and be impossible to defend in court.

C o m p a n i e s need to therefore properly manage these assets, carving out time in their schedule for their trade secrets and taking responsibility to ensure that they have a good, fit for purpose trade secret management process in place, underpinned by a robust trade secret asset management tool.




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Hazel Screen shots from the tool




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Hazel Example reports

Hazel Features and functions




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The Hazel tool has been designed to be relatively easy to install, configure and take into use The Hazel tool manages metadata, not trade secret information, leaving trade secret information in its current, secure locations It has clear simple and logical data entry screens enabling the entry of trade secret metadata with limited specialised training or legal help needed by the user It contains a detailed built in trade secret classification methodology and this classification methodology is easily customised. The categorisation capabilities of the Hazel tool may also be extended using a ‘tagging’ feature The Hazel tool contains a specialised database developed for trade secret asset management The Hazel tool has a feature which creates a historical audit trail of additions and changes It contains an ‘access module’ to track the individuals, groups and/or companies with access to each trade secrets as well as their access level It contains a ‘protection module’ to log the different administrative, technical and legal mechanisms in use to secure each trade secrets The ‘review module’ supports regular reviews of the trade secrets logging the participants, date and key outputs of such reviews. The ‘action module’ allows all associated actions from the reviews to be logged and tracked The Hazel tool may be used to manage those trade secrets shared with 3rd parties, such as collaboration partners. It may also be used to manage any trade secrets belonging to 3rd parties and entrusted to the company The filtering feature enables the user to conduct both quick and advanced searches through the data A comprehensive and customisable suite of reports may be automatically generated by the Hazel tool A USB hard-‐key device protects the Hazel tool from un-‐authorised access The Hazel tool has been designed using Microsoft technology The Hazel tool should be installed locally, but the data can be local or on a network drive. Data is NOT stored on the cloud.




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