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Untangling The Legal Complexities Of Trade Secrets And AI

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With broad adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools, some commentators have suggested that trade secret law is the best means for protecting innovations. Looking to trade secret law to protect AI is facially...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

The $740 Million Jury Question: Massive Trade Secrets Award Overturned Because of Erroneous “Improper Means” Instruction

The right to a jury trial is one of the most important features of modern trade secrets law.  But as a recently issued Order from the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals (“Court of Appeals”) illustrates, the jury trial right is...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

United States v. Blaszczak: Second Circuit Ruling Creates Opening for Significant Increase in Insider Trading Prosecutions

The Second Circuit recently took an unexpected plunge into the torrid waters of insider trading law. Following several years of decisions limiting the government’s broad interpretation of what constitutes a personal benefit...more

White and Williams LLP

Second Circuit: Insider Trading Conviction Does Not Require a Finding of Personal Benefit

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On December 30, 2019, the Second Circuit issued its landmark decision in United States v. Blaszczak, which widened the berth for federal prosecution of insider trading activities under Title 18 of the United States Code. The...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

SCOTUS upholds Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction

The Supreme Court of the United States held on January 25, 2016, that an executive of a shipping company who hacked into his former employer’s computer system after he left the company was guilty under the Computer Fraud and...more

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