The FTC conducted its first workshop on noncompetes on January 9, 2020. An opportunity for the public to submit comments remains open until March 11, which is only two weeks away. I attended the wo...
Hello all, just a quick note, we are just under a month away from the AIPLA's 2020 Trade Secret Law Summit, truly one of the premier trade secrets programs. The Summit is scheduled for Monday, Marc...
Happy New Year! On January 9, 2020, the FTC will be holding a hearing (at 8:30 a.m. at the FTC’s Headquarters Building, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC) “to examine whether there is...
*This post was originally published by Erika Hahn and me on Law360 under the title, “Noncompete Misconceptions May Be Inhibiting Reform.” Federalism is alive and well. For about 200 ye...
Leaving your job? No problem. Going to a competitor? No problem (maybe). Taking stuff that doesn’t belong to you? Problem - definitely. Companies are particularly sensitive the misappropria...
With three-plus years of Defend Trade Secrets Act (the "DTSA") law under our belts and almost a year of the "new" Massachusetts new trade secrets law, my new book, Trade Secrets Law for the Massachus...
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...
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...
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...
Unlike patents, trademarks, and copyright, there is no federal trade secret statute. Instead, each of the 50 states has its own laws. And, although most of states have adopted some version of the Unif...