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...
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...
On September 17, the Trade Secrets Protection Act of 2014 was reported out of committee with several amendments from the version that was submitted to committee. It has a 57% chance of enactment.
The AIPLA Trade Secret Summit is scheduled for Thursday, December 4, and Friday, December 5, at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara. You can register here. There will be a great group of spea...
It's that time of year again. With the elections behind us and the next legislative session coming soon, a new version of a proposed Uniform Trade Secrets Act has been filed in Massachusetts. (This v...
In a surprising turn of events last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that he was reintroducing legislation to modify Masschusetts noncompete law and to adopt a version of the Unifo...
While it was close this year, in the end, there was no legislative reform of either Massachusetts noncompete law or Massachusetts trade secrets law. I expect, however, that Senator Will Brownsberge...
Progress in the Massachusetts State House: On Tuesday, July 1, the latest version of the Massachusetts Noncompete Bill (the latest version of the bill that I had drafted for Senator Will Brownsbe...
Tomorrow - Thursday, May 29 at 1:00 PM in room A-1 - the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies will be holding a public hearing on Governor Patrick's economic development...
On April 29, the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development favorably reported out a bill (available here) very close to Governor Patrick’s proposed adoption of...
As you likely have seen (here for example), the Patrick Administration has spent a great deal of time putting together comprehensive proposed legislation designed to promote growth and opportunity in...