As we start the weekend, here are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” But first, Happy Father’s Day to all the dad celebrating Father’s Day in qu...
We recently prepared a “Ten Minute Training” video for companies to distribute to their employees to help minimize the risks posed to trade secrets as a result of so much of the workforce working...
As we head into the weekend, here is a short supplement to Wednesday’s additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is...
With all that is going on, I paused updates to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” But, now that I am going to resume, I want to take a moment before I do to acknowledge the pai...
About twice a year, I update my chart of reported noncompete and trade secrets decisions. Here is the latest. As regular readers of this blog know, several years ago, I became curious to see how m...
As we are just starting our Memorial Day Weekend, below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is t...
Hope for the best, plan for the worst. - John Jay The ability to protect trade secrets (and other legitimate business interests, including customer goodwill) has been hit by a perfect storm caused b...
The identification of trade secrets in misappropriation litigation is a critically important and evolving area of trade secret law. Not surprisingly, it is the subject of widely divergent and conflict...
As we head into the weekend, below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide ideas for m...
As we head into the weekend, below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” But first, Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms celebrating Mother’s Day...
As we start to think about the weekend, I discovered a time-sensitive addition to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” Accordingly to Rolling Stone, “Over 200 celebrities, ente...
As we start to think about the weekend, below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide...
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act deems certain uses of a computer to be unlawful (civilly and criminally). But, the Act is not the picture of clarity. The language that has created the most...
As we head into the weekend, below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide ideas for m...
As quiet as Virginia was in passing its noncompete for low wage (read “average wage”) employees, Indiana was even more quiet in passing legislation to restrict physician noncompetes. What it sa...
This seems to be the month for unicorns. In the past 30 days, we have had three. First, there was the trademark case – literally about unicorns. Then, the First Circuit gave us rare insight i...
The Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (the “NAA”) does not impose on a “garden leave clause” the same requirements it imposes on a noncompetition agreement. The NAA states that, ...
Below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide ideas for maintaining some quality of li...
Virginia is the latest state to follow the trend of imposing a ban on the use of noncompetes for low-wage workers (however defined) and rejecting a California/Oklahoma/North Dakota-style wholesale ba...
Below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide ideas for maintaining some quality of li...
Below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide ideas for maintaining some quality of li...
The First Circuit’s long-awaited decision in NuVasive v. Day has finally arrived! And, it’s a big nothing burger: nothing new about the new Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act, G.L....
Below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.” (No, this post is not an accident! :) ) The purpose of the original post and these updates is to provide...
With the continuing unfolding of the COVID19 pandemic, I remain particularly focused on identifying resources that I hope will be helpful to people while they try to cope with the new reality (hence t...