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Large Damage Awards May Face Scrutiny. In 2024, courts issued several significant decisions concerning damages awards in trade secret misappropriation cases. Three recent federal court decisions.

In Cajun Services Unlimited, LLC v. Benton Energy Service Company, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana denied a motion for summary judgmen

At the recent AIPLA Trade Secret Summit, one of the nation's premier conferences on trade secret law, critical issues surrounding the protection of confidential business information took center stage.

At the recent AIPLA Trade Secret Summit, one of the nation's premier conferences on trade secret law, critical issues surrounding the protection of confidential business information took center stage.

Just four years after the Lone Star State ended its holdout by becoming the 48th State to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Texas passed a bill to amend its enactment.

Jones Day v. Medianews Group, Case No. B178571, 2005 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 7876 (Cal. App. Aug. 30, 2005) (Gutman, J.), the California Court of Appeal held a newspaper publisher that publishes illegally obtained material deemed "privileged and confidential" and "attorney work product" is protected from suit by California’s anti-SLAPP provision if the complaint arises from actions made in furtherance of the right to free speech in connection with a public issue.

Have you updated your company's form employee and independent contractor non-disclosure agreements lately? Do they comply with new legal notice requirements relating o "whistleblowers"?

An enforceable restraint of trade can be a key business asset. Or some might think about it as an insurance policy.

Employers continuously face a key employee or consultant leaving or separating from the company to join or start a competing business.

In a testament to the wide breadth of potential trade secret protection to any number of industries, a court in the Western District of Washington denied a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss Seattle Sperm Bank's (SSB) DTSA and Washington Uniform Trade Secrets Act claims against its prior employees who set up a competing company, Cryobank America.

So, while the Baxter court concluded that a tortious interference claim could not survive summary judgement under the facts set forth in our previous post, those same facts supported the survival of the misappropriation claim.

Many companies assume that they need to choose between patent protections or trade secret protections for their intellectual property ...

It is axiomatic that in order for information to be considered a trade secret, it must have been kept secret.

Trade-secret claims provide powerful remedies, but they can also present challenges for other types of claims that may arise from the same facts.

An interesting case decided on April 3 in Florida confirms the axiom that information that is not secret cannot be a trade secret.

Earlier this month, Plaintiff Bright Side, LLC dba Herbal Edibles, a manufacturer of cannabis edibles, filed a lawsuit in New Mexico state court to enforce a 3-year non-compete...

Tensions recently escalated in the United States and China's ongoing exchange over online security and technology policies...

On Christmas, Santa and his elves have their work cut out for them and sometimes even they can use help to get their jobs done.