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Fisher Phillips

Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Company's Secrets?

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A decade ago, I litigated a trade secret/unfair competition dispute between two large plastics manufacturers. The Plaintiff was based in southwest Florida, the Defendant in southern Alabama. The factual dispute is...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Simple Steps to Help Keep Your Trade Secrets Safe

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As illustrated by the recent lawsuit by America’s Test Kitchen against celebrity chef Christopher Kimball, companies in a variety of industries are vulnerable to losing their trade secrets....more

Brooks Pierce

Ninth Circuit Interprets “Without Authorization” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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When we last left David Nosal, he had escaped liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after convincing some of his former colleagues at executive search firm Korn/Ferry to use their log-in credentials to download...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Court Upholds Conviction Of Ex-Employee For Conspiring To Access Company Data Through “Shared” Password

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Is password sharing a crime? It can be under the right circumstances, according to last week’s decision in United States v. Nosal. In Nosal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of a former...more

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