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Morgan Lewis

Trade Secrets in the Automotive Industry

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As recent innovations in automotive technology continue to fuel unprecedented growth across the industry, companies must adapt their privacy and confidentiality capabilities to safeguard highly valuable trade secrets. With...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Trade Secret Protection in 2025: What In-House Counsel Need to Know

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Recent developments in workplace dynamics, regulatory changes, and several high-profile cases have highlighted the growing importance of understanding and protecting your company's trade secrets. For in-house counsel, staying...more

Venable LLP

Understanding Trade Secret Laws and Assets

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For companies, maintaining a competitive advantage over the market is necessary for long-term growth. In many cases, this competitive advantage takes the form of a federal- or state-protected trade secret, such as a...more

Fish & Richardson

Crafting a Comprehensive Trade Secret Strategy

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Despite the value trade secrets create for companies that hold them, they are often-overlooked intellectual property assets. But, unlike patents, trade secrets require their owners to take affirmative steps to maintain the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Protecting Trade Secrets During a Pandemic

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Fear of the coronavirus is causing many employers to permit—or in some cases mandate—employees to work remotely. While this measure is designed to minimize the risk of virus transmission, it presents an altogether different...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Seven Steps to Address Trade Secret Misappropriation by Whistleblowers

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“The immunity provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act creates serious risk for companies: A whistleblower could expose a company to civil and criminal penalties stemming from the company’s alleged misconduct and...more

Lowndes

Here’s What You Need To Know About Protecting Trade Secrets

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What do you do when a key employee leaves and you believe he/she has taken your company’s trade secrets to a competitor? Or when a strategic business partner uses your trade secret information to compete against you?...more

Littler

"Purloined Letters": Management Options When a Departing Employee Puts a Business Entity at Risk by Collecting Confidential...

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The following scenario is more common—and more troubling—than ever before. A high ranking employee who has signed an agreement to preserve the confidentiality of business plans, financial information, and trade secrets...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

The Defend Trade Secrets Act: Five Key Lessons

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Courts will refuse to grant trade secret protection under the Defend Trade Secret Act (DTSA) when an employer has not taken certain basic precautions to create and maintain the secrecy of the subject information. ...more

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