Client Testimonials
"Dealing with Waterfront... has been a very easy process from the start. The team are extremely professional, knowledgeable and friendly. We are a start-up technology company with no experience when it comes to legal matters, so it could have been a minefield. However, Carole, Trixie and co explained everything in layman's terms and made me feel very comfortable knowing the fact that my business was now in good hands.
The quality of their work, the understanding of our requirements and technology and the speed in which they produced our documentation were all first class. I feel we have a great relationship with Waterfront... and now I wouldn't consider using anyone else."
Phil Reed, Director, FinQS
Confidentiality
Keeping information confidential helps to prevent your competitors from becoming aware of your new ideas and getting to the market place ahead of you.
Further, certain intellectual property rights are destroyed if confidentiality is not preserved. For example, if your business is research intensive, and you freely exhibit a new idea or way of doing something at a trade show, you will no longer be able to apply for patents in respect of that new idea. So keeping information confidential, at least until a new idea has been commercially and legally evaluated for patentability is essential.
Accordingly, you should always educate your employees to keep everything confidential and you should never retain independent consultants without first asking them to sign a written consultancy agreement, which includes confidentiality provisions.
In the event that you become aware of a breach of confidential information, you should seek legal advice as soon as possible. The most important thing is to stop the confidential information being passed on to third parties, and the only way to do this is to make an urgent application to the Court.