The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been substantially updated to reflect numerous developments in statutory or case law since the last draft, as well as clarifications of existing laws. Click h...
As of Thursday, August 6, Arkansas noncompete law was statutorily modified by the addition of Ark. Code 4-70-207. With all of the talk about states (like New Hampshire, Hawaii, Massachusetts,...
Noncompete law is a creature of state regulation. As such, no surprise, we have 50 variations (really 51, when you factor in DC - albeit 3 states (California, Oklahoma, and North Dakota) prohibit emp...
More and more studies are being conducted about the impact of noncompetes on the economy, including in particular on startups, employee mobility, and innovation. Two relatively recent studies, sug...
In anticpation of speaking at the Boston Bar Association’s 15th Annual Intellectual Property Year in Review earlier this month, I prepared a paper discussing a number of the developments in trad...
Several bills concerning trade secrets and noncompetes were filed this week in the Massachusetts legislature. On trade secrets side, the following bills were filed: H.2569 by Representatives Bradle...
As regular readers of this blog know, several years ago, I became curious to see how many reported trade secret / noncompete decisions were issued each year in all federal and state courts around the...