Uniform Trade Secrets Acts

BREAKING NEWS: Don’t Mess with Texas Trade Secrets: Lone Star State Becomes 48th State to Adopt Uniform Trade Secrets Act

by Scott Lindlaw, Michael Spillner | Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 5/3/2013

In the battle to harmonize trade secret law, Texas was the Alamo—the biggest state to hold out against the rising tide of states adopting the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. But the Lone Star State is an outlier no more. Today...more

Decisions Highlight Split In Application Of Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

by Thomas Dye | Carlton Fields on 4/25/2013

Trade secret claims have historically derived from state common law causes of action and, subsequently, most states’ adoption of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, which codifies that common law and generally proscribes the...more

Recent Federal Court Rulings Reaffirm Broad Supersession of Common Law Claims under California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act

by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 4/16/2013

Last month, two federal district courts reaffirmed that litigants may not plead around California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) by alleging common law tort claims said to protect business information that does not...more