Once again, this installment of “Trade Secret | Noncompete Issues and Cases in the News” is my vacation readings update. There is again a lot here! Enjoy… Federal/Antitrust: In October 2009,...
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...
It’s time for this month’s Trade Secret | Noncompete Issues and Cases in the News. (This post will be updated over the next week; however, two recent and very important decisions necessitated quic...
The Maryland legislature has become the first state legislature to pass a bill forbidding employers from demanding - or even asking for - social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) usernames a...
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 posts. In addition to my summary,...
Your employee markets your company through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. The employee develops – as he or she is asked to do – a substantial network. Later, your employee leaves. Wh...
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey recently issued a decision (Syncsort Incorporated v. Innovative Routines, International, Inc.) providing one more piece in the puzzl...
A lot has been written on how insecure social media can be and the need to assess the risks. I won't bother to add more. I am, however, passing along a very-well written (and lengthy) discussion of...
The perennial issue of the extent of privacy rights in the workplace -- in particular, what right the employer has to review private messages (including sexually-explict text messages, see "sexting")...
Each time a new technology rolls out, legal decisions follow. Social media is the latest. Remember the cyberstalker? How about Facebook's lawsuit against Power.com? Or the class action against Face...