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Thomas J. Pardini,
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Thomas J. Pardini
Senior Associate
Thomas Pardini Headshot at Farella Braun + Martel
tpardini@fbm.com
San Francisco 415.954.4475
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  • Harvard Law School  (J.D., 2016)
    • Dean’s Scholar Prize in Constitutional Law: First Amendment
    • Harvard Sports Law Clinic
    • Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
  • University of California, Berkeley  (B.A., 2012)
    • High Honors

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Publications

January 31, 2023 Articles
Failures Are Valuable IP: Protect Your Startup’s Negative Trade Secrets
TechCrunch+
November 21, 2022
Highlights from 2022 Unified Patents Corporate IP Strategy Conference
October 5, 2022 Articles
Protecting “What Not to Do” as a Negative Trade Secret
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Failures Are Valuable IP: Protect Your Startup’s Negative Trade Secrets

Technology companies and start-ups are familiar with protecting inventions with patents, and protecting their secret formulas, source code, and algorithms as trade secrets. But tech companies may not be aware of another powerful form of...

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Protecting “What Not to Do” as a Negative Trade Secret

“Negative trade secrets”—i.e., secret know-how about what does not work—are generally protectable in California, but in practice have proven challenging for courts and litigants to discern.  While a trade secret is a company’s intellectual...

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Highlights from 2022 Unified Patents Corporate IP Strategy Conference

Recently, several Farella lawyers attended the 2022 Corporate IP Strategy Conference, co-hosted by the Santa Clara University High Tech Law Journal and Unified Patents. Eugene Mar, Erik Olson, Dan Callaway, and Tom Pardini enjoyed...

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