“Our clients are increasingly asking for assistance with their trade secrets. They understand that trade secrets represent both great opportunities for value and significant risk if not managed properly. Tangibly’s expertise complements Mintz’s complete range of trade secret protection and litigation capabilities.â€
Mike Renaud
Member and Chair of Mintz’s IP Division
About Mintz
Mintz is a leading intellectual property and litigation firm that helps companies protect, manage, and enforce high value innovations. With a nationally recognized IP practice spanning litigation, transactions, counseling, and licensing, Mintz advises clients across life sciences, technology, energy, and other innovation driven sectors. As trade secrets become a more important part of modern IP strategy, Mintz partnered with Tangibly to bring clients a more structured and proactive way to identify, manage, and protect confidential know-how.
Challenge
Trade secrets are often some of a company’s most valuable assets, but many businesses still struggle to manage them proactively before misappropriation occurs. For one optical engineering client, valuable confidential designs, processes, and data were spread across research and development teams and had never been formally identified or protected through a dedicated governance framework. Mintz needed a more efficient way to uncover hidden assets, close exposure gaps, and give the client a clearer system for protecting proprietary knowledge.
Solution
Through Tangibly’s AI powered platform, Mintz was able to surface 20 previously undocumented trade secret assets across the client’s research and development teams. These findings gave the firm a stronger foundation for advising the client on how to classify, document, and govern confidential innovations. Using Tangibly’s structured workflows and reporting tools, Mintz helped design a proactive trade secret framework that improved visibility, supported ongoing management, and aligned legal strategy more closely with technical and operational teams.
Results
By combining Tangibly’s technology with Mintz’s legal expertise, the client gained a more defensible system for managing trade secrets. Mintz helped identify hidden assets, strengthen documentation of reasonable measures and ownership, and create a clearer governance framework across teams. The result was a stronger overall IP posture, better internal alignment, and greater confidence in how proprietary knowledge was being protected.