On Tuesday, engineer and autonomous-vehicle pioneer Anthony Levandowski entered a San Jose courtroom sans tie to plead not guilty to 33 charges of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets ...

Understanding the definition of a trade secret under federal law is crucial for businesses looking to protect their valuable information. Trade secrets are also defined by state law. While there ...

On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), which became effective that very same day. The DTSA amends the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (“EEA ...

July 18, 2022 - The owner of a trade secret does not have an exclusive right to possess or use the secret information. Protection is available only against a wrongful acquisition, disclosure, or ...

It is no secret that trade secrets are essential to the success of many businesses. Nearly all of us are aware of examples of highly treasured trade secrets, such as the recipe for Coca-Cola, the ...

Trade secrets exist, by definition, only if the owner takes reasonable measures to maintain their secrecy. This is true under the Federal, State and Uniform Trade Secret Acts.

A successful trade secret misappropriation claim requires proof of improper means. A person who obtains a trade secret by inducing or knowingly accepting a disclosure from a third person who has ...

The carrier is not the secret but is the object of security measures. The purpose of setting up the measures is to protect the carrier from exposing secrets to the public. Therefore, the nature of ...

Congress used largely the same definition in the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (EEA), which included the first federal definition of a trade secret to criminalize trade secret theft, as well as ...

Trade secrets occupy a strange place in the IP landscape, ... it can be hard to say what keeping the secret would even mean. That makes it difficult to prevent a case from being launched, ...

My previous blog on the DTSA addressed the definition of a “Trade Secret” under the DTSA (see IP Watchdog, May 24, 2016), this will address what it generally means to “misappropriate” a ...