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Misappropriation Pleading Standards

Fisher Phillips

A 5-Step Action Plan to Plead Your Trade Secrets Case: Dancing on the Head of a Pin with Possibility, Plausibility, and...

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Trade secret cases, by their inherent nature, require speed. For instance, a former employee may have stolen key data and gone to a competitor — and you need to move fast to protect your confidential information. But that...more

Jones Day

2021 Mid-Year Review: Key Global Trade Secret Developments

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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

Saiber LLC

Third Circuit Clarifies Requirements for Pleading a Trade Secret Misappropriation Claim under the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act

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In a recent published, precedential opinion, Oakwood Laboratories LLC v. Thanoo, 999 F.3d 892 (3d Cir. 2021), the Third Circuit clarified the pleading standard necessary to allege a trade secret misappropriation claim under...more

Hicks Johnson

A Guide to Texas Trade Secret Laws

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What companies need to know as disputes grow larger, more frequent - Given the primacy of technology to the operation of the global economy, it should come as no surprise that jury awards in trade secret disputes are...more

Haug Partners LLP

The Defend Trade Secrets Act: An Overview and Key Developments

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Four years have passed since Congress enacted the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) in 2016, and federal courts have developed a new body of law based on this relatively young statute. The DTSA provides a private civil cause...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Allegedly “(Leon) Black”-listed Former Apollo Employee Fails to State A Business Tort Claim

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The line between aggressive business competition and unlawful conduct can sometimes be difficult to determine. Many different theories of tort liability have developed over the years to address the variations of unlawful...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

North Carolina Supreme Court Requires Specific Pleadings for Trade Secret Claim

Like most states, the North Carolina Trade Secrets Protection Act prohibits individuals or businesses from misappropriating or misusing certain confidential business information belonging to someone else. However, not all...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Pleading a Claim for Misappropriation of Trade Secrets in California: A Problem of Particularity

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Recent decisions in California raised the question of whether a party asserting a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets must, in its pleadings, define the trade secrets at issue with particularity. The cases variously...more

Fish & Richardson

Series: Defend Trade Secrets Act | Pleading A Claim Under the DTSA

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Courts have had over a year to address the pleading requirements under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), after it took effect in May 2016. The general pleading standard remains the plausibility test under the...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Betwixt and Between: Finding Specificity in Trade Secret Misappropriation Cases

Trade secret misappropriation cases create a unique problem for courts. The parties become quickly embroiled in litigation over the misappropriation of trade secrets, sometimes with only bare-bone allegations of those trade...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Thirty-Year-Old Conspiracy to Misappropriate Trade Secrets Lives On - ABB Turbo Sys. AG, et al. v. TurboUSA, et al.

Addressing the standard for pleading trade secret misappropriation and conspiracy under Florida law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Trade Secrets Claim Dismissed For Failure To Plead “Reasonable Measures” Element

Recently, many of the battles in trade secret litigation in North Carolina have been fought over whether the trade secrets have been alleged with enough specificity to survive a motion to dismiss. (”Trade Secret...more

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