An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We have updated our checklist for protecting trade secrets.
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...
Who controls what's in your brain? When a former employee knows his or her former employer’s trade secrets, the former employer may be able to obtain injunctive relief preventing the employee, not...
After years of trying (8, to be precise - the first bills were filed, virtually simultaneously as it turned out, by Representative Lori Ehrlich and then-Representative (now Senator) Will Brownsberge...
I posted yesterday that President Obama had signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act, including a lengthy summary of the bill, it's history, what it does, and what (I think) it will mean for companies....
After 5 years in the making, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the "DTSA") was signed into law today by President Obama (following a unanimous vote by the Senate (87-0) and nearly unanimous vote...
This is a very quick post, with details to follow tomorrow. We've all been waiting for it, and it's happening tomorrow: President Obama is scheduled to sign the Defend Trade Secrets Act (aka the...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Federal: The president has until Saturday to sign or veto the DTSA. "[D]escribed as the '...
With trade secret theft growing and showing no sign of stopping, it's no surprise that there has been bipartisan support for Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - the act that amends the Economic...
Introduction Trade secrets are frequently the “forgotten” intellectual property. (The indisputably-recognized types of intellectual property are patents, copyrights, and trademarks.) Accordin...
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...
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...
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...
It seems that, lately, each installment of Trade Secret | Noncompete Issues and Cases in the News could be called, “What I read over my vacation.” As was inevitably the case, given the time betwee...
Like a similar post last month, this post provides a summary of noncompete and trade secret issues and cases that have arisen in the past month or so, but that I have not already addressed in recent p...
While everyone else gets their information by googling it, how does Google get its information? Well, according to Pay Pal, it steals it. Just two days ago (Friday, May 27, 2011 - for those reading...
Well, I guess it's not such a bad thing that my last post was about the HP/Oracle/Hurd dispute, as there's more to report. It's settled. No surprise there; most of these cases do settle - and settl...
Bad pun aside, Hewlett-Packard has sued its former CEO, Mark Hurd, who left HP last month and reportedly just joined Oracle as its new co-president. (A copy of the complaint if available here.) No...
You may recall that in February, a senior executive from Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. ("Bimbo") - maker of, among other things, Thomas' English Muffins - went to work for a competitor. The executive, Chri...