The other day, I was listening to 1970’s and 80’s music (which I am wont to do, much to my wife’s chagrin). The music, as music often does, evoked memories of the past. Think what you...
It turns out that global climate change is caused by a decrease in the number of pirates. Don’t believe it? See the chart to the right. This is an example of mistaking correlation for causati...
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...
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...
Last week, I posted an article explaining the new noncompete and trade secrets law reform legislation passed by the Massachusetts Legislature. See Massachusetts noncompete and trade secret reform ha...
Almost a decade in the making, the Massachusetts legislature has today (July 31 - at 11:57 PM) finally passed noncompete reform. Unheralded, however, is the companion updating of Massachusetts trade s...
On April 26, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Workforce Mobility Act to impose a federal ban on the use of employee noncompetes. A compan...
On Tuesday, April 17, the Massachusetts legislature's Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development favorably reported H.4419 to the House Steering, Policy and Scheduling. The new bill - w...
Today, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hearing on the 8 bills involving noncompetes or trade secrets currently pending at the State House. As many of you w...
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...
Almost nine years in the making, Massachusetts is on the cusp of noncompete reform. And, decades in the making (yes, decades, thanks to Steve Chow's extraordinary efforts), Massachusetts is also...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update. Remember that the Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete Laws is updated regularly to reflect (i...
[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...
As of last night, Massachusetts has two competing versions of noncompete and trade secrets law reform bills. The House version (H.4434) is described here, and the Senate version (S.2418) (which d...
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...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Federal: The Defend Trade Secrets Act is now law of the land. The United States now (offic...
Both trade secrets laws and noncompete laws are the product of state law, although at the federal level there is a criminal trade secrets law (the Economic Espionage Act). These laws are in a constan...
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...
In a surprising turn of events last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that he was reintroducing legislation to modify Masschusetts noncompete law and to adopt a version of the Unifo...
True to the unfortunate limit of 24 hours in a day, my posts continue to written during my vacations. This time, given the extended delay between vacations, and therefore posts on issues and cases mak...