The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect a recent update in Utah law (which will take effect on May 10, 2016). Click here to get the latest version. Please note that the...
On March 22, 2016, Utah passed the Post-Employment Restrictions Act. Under the Act, all new noncompete agreements executed on or after May 10, 2016, are restricted to one year; any agreement...
Below is a short supplement to March's update on issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news. The developments are as follows… Federal: The Senate vote on the Defend Trade Secret...
On March 10, in R.J. O'Brien & Assoc., LLC v. Williamson, another United States District Court judge in Illinois (Judge Robert Gettleman) weighed in on the controversial Fifield v. Premier D...
On March 10 (the last day to do so), the Utah legislature passed the Senate's amended version of the noncompete reform bill. For details about the bill, see Utah Noncompete Reform: Only Today Left....
With less than a day left, we're down to the wire on Utah's consideration of noncompete reform this session. Yesterday, March 9, the Utah Senate made some amendments (see below) to the version fr...
On March 8, as expected, the Utah Senate took up the noncompete bill. However, rather than approve a ban on employee noncompetes (as approved by the House), the Utah Senate approved a bill t...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Georgia: In February, the Georgia State Senate focused on the intersection between publics r...
Both trade secrets laws and noncompete laws are the product of state law, although at the federal level there is a criminal trade secrets law (the Economic Espionage Act). These laws are in a constan...
Massachusetts noncompete reform efforts took a significant step forward today. Massachusetts Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo announced today a very thoughtful proposal for significant changes...
Below is a short supplement to February's update on issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news. The developments are as follows… Florida: On February 24, Florida's governor, Rick S...
Alabama's new so-called "Restrictive Covenant Act," Ala. Code §§ 8-1-190-197, reproduced below, can be a bit hard to find. (Hat tip to the law firm of Sirote & Permutt, which has a nice summ...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect a few developments in statutory or case law since the last draft. Click here to get the latest version. Please note that the char...
There have been a few issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news recently that are worth taking note of if you missed them. They are as follows… Michigan: Republican (yes, Republ...
Having looked back over the last couple of years, I realized that I have failed to provide enough updates on issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news. So, I am going to try to resume...
In anticpation of speaking at the Boston Bar Association’s 16th Annual Intellectual Property Year in Review earlier this month, with some assistance from several of my colleagues (Nicole Daly, Ha...
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...