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#WorkforceWednesday: Latest Developments – Restrictive Covenants in the Health Care Industry - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
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#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Law Update – Key Developments from 2023 - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
The FBI on Economic Espionage
#WorkforceWednesday: Restrictive Covenants Around the World - Challenges for Multinational Employers - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
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#WorkforceWednesday: Attention Employers - How to Protect Trade Secrets in California - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: When a Restrictive Covenant Dispute Goes Beyond the Injunction Phase - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidance on the use of artificial intelligence-based tools in patent practice to inform practitioners of important issues when using Artificial Intelligence (AI)...more
As we all await rulings on the lawsuits challenging the FTC’s Noncompete Rule (one of which may be decided later today), we provide an update on the Knicks/Raptors trade secret case that we previously discussed on EBG’s...more
In today’s highly connected, tech-obsessed world, personal electronic devices (“devices”), including tablet computers and mobile phones, are seemingly ubiquitous. Increasingly, employers are capitalizing on this phenomenon by...more
Despite the ever increasing concerns over privacy and data breaches, both externally and internally, it may become more difficult for employers to legally protect their confidential and proprietary information...more
With the proliferation of technology and cloud-based computing, employers often struggle to provide employees with the tools to allow access to the information they need to effectively and efficiently do their jobs while...more
In a recent discovery dispute before the Northern District of California, Plaintiff Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (“Monolithic”) unsuccessfully attempted to bypass California Code of Civil Procedure section 2019.210 which...more
In its recent decision in Van Buren v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and its potential use by employers to ensure computer security and protection for...more
A trade secret is any information used in one’s business that derives independent economic value from being kept secret. Unlike patents, trade secrets are protected indefinitely for as long as they remain a secret. In the...more
Mere "misuse" of information is not enough. The U.S. Supreme Court decided yesterday that a criminal conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act cannot be based merely on misusing information obtained through a...more
Software has an outsized role in the economy contributing over a trillion dollars to the value of the US gross domestic product. Proprietary software represents a significant portion of that value and can be among a...more
Loose language in a criminal statute conferring a private cause of action – such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) – presents an interpretative dilemma for courts. The CFAA furthers the legitimate public interest in...more
Now entering its ninth month in the United States with no sign of slowing down, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employers to make permanent changes to business operations in order to survive. Among the most noticeable...more
A trade secret is any information used in one's business that derives independent economic value from being kept secret. Unlike patents, trade secrets are protected indefinitely for as long as they remain a secret. In the...more
Supreme Court decisions are often the most challenging pieces of legal guidance to understand. They are rarely straightforward and usually contain so much analysis that it becomes hard to get to the bottom of what was...more
As the digital landscape in the United States evolves, federal courts are reexamining federal cybersecurity laws enacted during an era before individuals, companies, and the government had easy access to computers and the...more
Legal analytics powerhouse Lex Machina recently released its 2020 Trade Secret Litigation Report, which highlights federal litigation trends in the last decade, as well as the last year specifically. ...more
A Tennessee District Court recently ruled in Wachter Inc. v. Cabling Innovations, LLC, 3:18-cv-00488 (W.D. Tenn. May 7, 2019) that two former employees with permitted access to company computers were not liable under the...more
A district court in Tennessee recently concluded in Wachter Inc. v. Cabling Innovations LLC that two former employees who allegedly shared confidential company information found on the company’s computer system with a...more
The public's increasing reliance on anonymous product and company reviews posted online often gives rise to complaints by the subjects of those reviews, especially when the reviews are negative or critical, and threaten to...more
Plaintiff Fintech Fund, FLP filed an action in federal court in the Southern District of Texas asserting claims under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against Ralph Horne, a citizen of...more
Continuing our annual tradition, we present the top developments and headlines for 2017 and what we expect in 2018 in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law....more
In a recent case, with some rather salacious details, the Third Circuit had the opportunity to examine employee liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Teva received a tip from a competitor’s former employee...more
Just over four years ago, in January 2014, a court sentenced former Korn/Ferry regional director David Nosal to one year and one day in prison for violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Espionage Act. ...more
The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (“CFAA”) has generated controversy and disagreement among courts and commentators regarding the scope of its application. The statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, which provides for...more
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in Nosal v. United States, 16-1344. Nosal asked the Court to determine whether a person violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s prohibition...more