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The district court sentenced Nosal to one year and one day in prison; three years of supervised release; a $60,000 fine and approximately $828,000 in restitution to Korn/Ferry.

On June 24, 2013, an appellate court in Illinois made it more difficult for Illinois employers, including those in the automotive industry, to enforce non-solicitation and non-competition provisions.

Although non-competes outside of California are typically enforceable (subject to each state's laws), the White House issued a report this summer discussing what it believes to be misuse of non-competes

In the third installment of our 2021 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys Dan Hart, Kevin Young, and Cary Burke outlined the connection between wage and hour law and restrictive covenant law.

In this episode, Benjamin Fink and his co-hosts discuss recent criminal prosecutions for use of no-poach agreements, legislative changes to state noncompete and nonsolicitation laws...

On the heels of the FTC's announcement of a proposed rule to ban all noncompetes, a bi-partisan group of Senators has reintroduced the "Workforce Mobility Act."

In Global Protein Products v. Le, a California Court of Appeal recently confirmed that a patent does not automatically destroy a trade secret where the patent discloses a list of ingredients but...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has released its 2017 Edition of Cal-Peculiarities: How California Employment Law Is Different.

In this episode, Benjamin Fink and his co-hosts discuss the the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and its Trade Secret Law Committee...

On February 27, 2017, a federal jury in Easton Pennsylvania returned the first verdict in the country under the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA").

On February 27, 2017, a federal jury in Easton Pennsylvania returned the first verdict in the country under the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA").

As we previously reported, on February 18, 2020, Medterra CBD filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it had misappropriated Healthcare Resources Management Group LLC's proprietary formula for a CBD cream aimed at treating pain.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a law firm that was sued by two former employees of the firm’s former client for filing a trade-secret lawsuit against them, allegedly without having any good-faith reason to do so.

In the case of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. v. Roberto Ivan Ortega (Case No. 4:24−cv−04962), the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas...

Addressing the issue of standing of a non-exclusive licensee to bring a trade secret misappropriation claim, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld denial of a motion for judgment as a matter of law.

In this episode, Benjamin Fink and his co-hosts discuss the FTC's proposed ban on noncompetes

A recent action by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors demonstrates the increased risk that banking officials face in trade secret misappropriation cases.

In early December, the Senate Judiciary Committee had placed on its agenda a markup of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015, S. 1890, 114th Cong.