Category Archives: FCL

This post is a bit unusual for me. It is not about substantive law. It's not about Fair Competition Law issues in the news. It's not even my own analysis. Rather, it is a list - by a different blog (T...
We spend lots of time on this blog discussing trade secret protection. To give some context, I thought it might be helpful to have a few statistics: Trade secret and related noncompete cases have m...
Earlier this month, I tried something a bit different. Doing a take-off on what I do in the last class of the Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants course that I teach at Boston University School o...
I am trying something a bit different. It's a take-off on what I do in my last class in the Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants course I teach at Boston University School of Law. So, here it goes....
Lawsuits over trade secrets typically involve things like customer lists, formulas, manufacturing processes, etc. Can the location of houses for use as movie sets be a trade secret? Yep. Well, at leas...
We're now fully operational here and at Beck Reed Riden LLP! With that, we are able to bring all of the basic services to full capacity.  Toward that end, I have updated the links on the right sid...
Thinking about whether "Fair Competition" is a nice play on "Unfair Competition," insofar as FAIR competition is the ultimate goal of unfair competition laws.  What do you think?...