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A successful startup provides a solution to a market need. Typically, the solution involves a new or improved device or technique.

In a stunning victory for the former Goldman Sachs programmer, New York State Justice Daniel Conviser threw out Sergey Aleynikov's jury conviction on state law charges that he stole intellectual property from Goldman.

On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") ended its quest to enact a nationwide ban of non-compete agreements. Specifically, the FTC voted to dismiss its appeal...

On March 27, 2025, in Stimlabs LLC v. Griffiths, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ordered a former executive, Sarah Griffiths, to face claims related to her alleged theft of Stimlab's trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA") and the Georgia Trade Secrets Act ("GTSA") after denying her application for a TRO.

Mark Whitaker was profiled in Law.com's "How I Made It" series, discussing his role as co-chair of Morrison & Foerster's global IP Litigation Practice ...

Tessa Schwartz spoke to VentureBeat about how existing intellectual property and patent laws can address the unique challenges presented by artificial intelligence.

The sharing of intellectual property is pivotal to the growth and innovation of our economy.

The lawsuit was filed after National Oilwell Varco (NOV) hired Jeff Russo, one of MI-SWACO's business-development managers.

Jesse Coleman, a Partner in Seyfarth's Commercial Litigation practice group, will present at American Intellectual Property Law Association's "Working with Experts...

On November 17, 2023 a federal jury in Texas found Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. ("TCS") guilty of stealing trade secrets from Computer Science Corp. ("CSC")...

On January 17, 2020, freight rail company MidRail LLC filed suit against a large private equity group in New York State court for common law misappropriation of trade secrets, among other claims.

For those of us who revel in this time of year as amateur "bracketologists," last year's promise of the billion dollar bracket brought an added lottery-like level of fun to the NCAA basketball tournament.

Joining the wave of jurisdictions limiting the competitive restraints employers may place on low-wage employees is Maryland.

Just two days after TSW's inaugural post, we brought you news of Texas becoming the 48th state to enact some form of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA).

In May, we saw examples of how ND Cal judges apply the stricter pleading requirements of "Twombly/Iqbal" both to causes of action and to affirmative defenses.

In an article published in Intellectual Property Magazine's December 2019/January 2020 issue, Julianne Hartzell gave a roundup of trade secret trends from 2019 and what to expect in 2020.

Confidentiality agreements can ensure that employees are aware of their company's valuable trade secrets and can establish requirements to safeguard those assets.

Non-disclosure agreements (or "NDA") are usually commercial contracts where parties agree to share confidential information for the purpose of furthering other business transactions.