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Non-compete agreements have long been used by employers as an effective tool to protect their valuable trade secrets and confidential information. However, employers' overuse...

In 2016, the White House issued a report that expressed a call to action for noncompetition reform at the state legislative level throughout our nation. Since then, many states have tinkered

Imagine getting your hands on the ultimate creator cheat code — the behind-the-scenes playbook MrBeast uses to dominate YouTube. Now imagine going viral not for using it, but for allegedly walking off with it...

On April 23, 2024, the FTC adopted a comprehensive ban on noncompetes. The FTC's noncompete ban affects both intellectual property protection and employment agreements/procedures.

Intellectual Property Chair Michael T. Renaud, Member Jonathan J. Engler, and Associate Nicholas Armington co-authored an article published in the May/June 2023 issue of IP Litigator...

Sometimes a big problem for plaintiffs in trade-secret lawsuits is identifying precisely what was stolen.

In reversing an Indiana superior court’s grant of a preliminary injunction motion, the State of Indiana First District Court of Appeals found that domain names and other information contained on a publicly accessible website could not be the subject of a trade secret action under Indiana’s version of the Uniform Trade Secret Act. Paramanandam v. Herrmann, Case No. 84A01-0408-CV-345 (Ind. Ct. App. May 24, 2005).

In this edition of Jones Day's Women in IP series, partners Rebecca Swindells and Meredith Wilkes explore the challenges of protecting trade secrets...

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently awarded prejudgment and post-judgment interest in the trade secret suit between CardiAQ Valve Technologies and Neovasc...

The Act provides a federal civil remedy for misappropriation of trade secrets. There is no amount in controversy threshold.

On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act. DTSA creates federal protection for trade secrets by amending the Economic Espionage Act.

Global competition in high-tech industries is as intense as ever, and U.S. administrative agencies continue to find themselves at the center of global disputes between foreign companies...

In August, Massachusetts became the 49th state to sign into law its version of a Uniform Trade Secrets Act (MUTSA).

Owners of intellectual property ("IP") rights associated with inventions and creative works have discovered that "licensing" is an effective way to monetize their IP.

In an eagerly anticipated trade secret case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendant and agreed the plaintiff, a doctor, "failed to proffer sufficient evidence of similarity between his trade secret and [defendant's device] to create a genuine issue of material fact."

Businesses that compete globally are once again reminded of the need to avoid overreaching when requiring employees to sign non-compete agreements.

Parties entering into a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) should define the scope of the contract. Hence, they should determine what is encompassed by the term "confidential information."

Yesterday President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act. This act has been described as the most significant expansion of federal intellectual property law since the Lanham Act was enacted in 1946.