How would we do this efficiently in EWS? Mark
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Mark Holsworth/ENRON@enronXgate
04/10/2001 11:21 AM

To: Mark E Haedicke/HOU/ECT@ECT, Drew Fossum/ENRON@enronXgate, Kristina
Mordaunt/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Vicki Sharp/HOU/EES@EES
cc:
Subject:

Pete Van De Gohm of EES has again raised the topic of inventorying our
trade secret protection which has been discussed from time to time. I have
visited with Jim Derrick about having a legal/business committee representing
your major groups. It would function in a similar manner as our Y2K
committee did. We would have Fulbright & Jaworski give our people general
instructions, our business people would canvass our companies to determine
what we considered proprietary trade secrets and if we were not protecting
our proprietary information appropriately, we could address that issue.
Fulbright could also be used on an ad hoc basis. Costs would be shared
proportionately between the major groups except special fees attributable to
a specific operating group.

I believe we need this inventory. If we try to enforce our non-competition
agreements and we can't prove that we kept such information on a need to know
basis and properly secured, we could lose the law suit.

Jim asked that I contact each of you regarding this to see if you were in
agreement with the proposed plan. Please respond as soon as possible if you
agree so we can get the project off the ground.