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New legislation recognizes the evolving nature of employer-employee relationships, especially in remote work settings.

Congress recently passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ("DTSA"), which President Obama signed into law on May 11, 2016.

Trade secret protection expanded to include products or services "used in or intended for use in interstate or foreign commerce."

Recently, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals provided its first detailed treatment of the definition of trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) in Turret Labs USA...

Recent testimony in support of this legislation offers a good example of why a set of enhanced and uniformed laws for the protection of trade secrets is important.

In trade secret cases, it is often the case that a defendant company and employee accused of trade secret misappropriation enter into a joint defense agreement.

On November 9, 2023, in Ho-Ho-Kus, Inc. v. Sucharski, No. 2:23-cv-01677, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey found that Ho-Ho-Kus, Inc. ("HHK")...

In Tanium v. Yago et al., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia recently reminded us of a few things: (1) customer contact information can constitute a trade secret...

Normally in this space we write about case developments after the case is decided.

The name itself sounds so powerful: Non-Disclosure Agreement. How could anything be disclosed without repercussion if you have one of these?

At the end of 2019, Coty Inc. ("Coty") expanded its brand portfolio by closing a notable $600 million deal for a majority stake in reality star Kylie Jenner's young cosmetics company, ...

As readers of this blog know, most trade secret misappropriation claims are brought in civil complaints—but a recent case out of Pennsylvania reveals how quickly the tables can turn on a civil

On May 14, 2019, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed House Bill (HB) 2992, which imposes a new burden on employers that want to have enforceable noncompetition agreements with their Oregon employees.

It's common sense that, to protect a trade secret, the information must remain secret. However, when trade secret misappropriation claims arise...

It's common sense that, to protect a trade secret, the information must remain secret.

Over the past decade, intellectual property issues have often taken center stage in Congress.

Reviewing a preliminary injunction, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the injunction for failing to specifically identify protected trade secrets.

In a case illustrating the impact of permitting a patent application to be published, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s order granting defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings regarding claims for trade secret misappropriation, misrepresentation, conversion and unjust enrichment, finding that any information used by defendant was part of the public domain as a result of plaintiff’s published, and abandoned, patent application.