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Statute provides businesses with greater flexibility when bringing trade secrets claims.
States across the country are currently taking aim at one of the key tools that businesses use to protect their interests – restrictive covenants. For example, state legislatures in New...
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The Defend Trade Secrets Act: Will It Replace the Diminishing Restrictive Covenant?
Statute provides businesses with greater flexibility when bringing trade secrets claims.
States across the country are currently taking aim at one of the key tools that businesses use to protect their interests – restrictive covenants. For example, state legislatures in New...
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The DTSA Makes Trade Secrets a Federal Matter
Since it went into effect in 2016, the Defend Trade Secrets Act has brought an upsurge in the number of trade secrets cases being brought in federal court. As Robert Milligan, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, puts it, DTSA was “a real game changer in the sense that federal court was often off...
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Making a Federal Case Out of It: When trade secrets go walking out the door, employers have a new vehicle to try to get them back
The reality for almost every business is that not all of its employees are going to be happy in their jobs and that, at any given time, one or more is going to be seeking greener pastures. Many times those pastures are owned by competitors, and any business owner or CEO who fails to anticipate and...
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