The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated today to reflect a new laws in Idaho, Massachusetts, and Utah (and a few additional tweaks in other states). (See "Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompe...
This is an update to reflect the adoption by Massachusetts of its own version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. The background: Until now, every state but Massachusetts and New York had ado...
Governor Baker just signed the noncompete and trade secrets bills. They are now law. Here is what you need to know: Massachusetts noncompete and trade secret reform has arrived: What you need to k...
The "janitor rule," as it's come to be known, is the rule of thumb in restrictive covenant law that if a noncompetition agreement (or other restrictive covenant) restricts the scope of a former employ...
This was a busy week for noncompete laws. Two of the states that have actually made changes to their noncompete laws in the past two years - Idaho and Utah (see Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete Law...
The New Jersey legislature is considering noncompete reform. The current bill, Senate Bill 3518, largely tracks the concepts - and, in some instances, the language - of the Massachusetts bills that...
In preparation for an upcoming discussion of trade secrets law for PLI in San Francisco (Trade Secrets 2017: What Every Lawyer Should Know), I reran my chart of noncomepte and trade secrets decisions....
It turns out that I missed a few bills! New York: Two identical bills (one in the Assembly (A 6419) and one in the Senate (S 4688)) to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; and one (S 1204) that...
For those following noncompete and trade secrets legislative activity around the country, I just updated our Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete Laws page. (This is a never-ending task with so many s...
This is an update to reflect statutory revisions to Texas' version of its Uniform Trade Secrets Act statute, which will become effective on September 1. For more on the changes, see Texas Updates I...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated today to reflect a few developments in various states and to make a few tweaks since the last draft. Most significantly, Nevada adopted a bran...
Noncompete agreements have for about a decade been the focus of legislative efforts around the country. Some states seek to strengthen enforcement of them, while others seek to scale them back or elim...
Every state but Massachusetts and New York has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (the UTSA) in one form or another – though some may quibble with whether Alabama or North Carolina actually ad...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect a few developments and to make a few tweaks since the last draft. Most significantly, Georgia surprised many (me included) with it...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect several recent state law developments (in particular, limits on physician noncompetes in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island)....
On August 19, Illinois Governor Rauner signed the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. In short, the Act bans the use of noncompete agreements for low wage workers, i.e., those earning less than the greate...
[Chart updated on February 4, 2017] Every state but Massachusetts and New York has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (the UTSA) in one form or another - though some may quibble with whether A...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect several recent state law developments. Note that the Massachusetts Legislature is voting today on the pending noncompete (and trade secr...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … (My apologies to those who received an email update with a draft of this post.) Also, no...
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...
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 '...
Introduction Trade secrets are frequently the “forgotten” intellectual property. (The indisputably-recognized types of intellectual property are patents, copyrights, and trademarks.) Accordin...
For those looking for a basic primer on Massachusetts noncompete law, I thought I'd provide the following from my book, Negotiating, Drafting, and Enforcing Noncompetition Agreements and Related...
Updated (updates in italic) On March 22, 2016, the Idaho Senate voted 22-13 to pass a bill (H487) to modify Idaho noncompete law. (This follows the March 14 vote by the House to pass the bil...