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Three Strategies to Prevent Departing Employees from Absconding with Trade Secrets and Other Confidential Business Information

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One of the biggest threats to modern corporations involves departing employees who take confidential business information (CBI) and/or trade secrets with them prior to or upon their departure. Indeed, the misappropriation of...more

Maynard Nexsen

Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 6: Digital Forensics & Protecting Trade Secrets with Clark Walton

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This week, hosts Tina and Cherie are joined by Clark Walton, a Digital Forensics Expert, Attorney, and Legal Forensics Instructor for Reliance Forensics. They have an insightful discussion on digital forensics and what...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

November’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published November 15, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Illumination Zone: Episode 127 | Ankura's Sean Evans sits down with Kaylee & Mary

Illumination Zone: Sean Evans, Managing Director for EDRM Trusted Partner, Ankura sits down with Kaylee and Mary to talk about his journey to eDiscovery and some tools and techniques for protecting IP and trade secrets when...more

Jones Day

Trade Secrets and Generative AI: Protective Measures In an Evolving Technological Landscape

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In Short - The Background: In recent months, artificial intelligence ("AI") platforms have taken the world by storm, introducing new, powerful tools for generating original and useful content based on training data and user...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Proper Hygiene Matters: Three Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection Challenges and Solutions

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Editor’s Note: HaystackID hosted an educational webcast on March 15, 2023, to discuss the growing importance of cyber and data hygiene in the context of privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection. The webcast focused on how...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Are Inferences Trade Secrets Under the CCPA?

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The California AG recently released its first Opinion interpreting the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), highlighting a brewing conflict over the inferences that businesses generate about their consumers. This Opinion...more

Mayer Brown

IP Pitfalls in Data Monetization Projects

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Join Mayer Brown partners Richard Assmus and Oliver Yaros as they discuss with host Julian Dibbell how to address the IP pitfalls in data monetization. Their discussion will focus on the unseen value of data, the difficulties...more

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[Webinar] The Hidden Gems of eDiscovery AI: Advanced techniques to supercharge your process - July 29th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

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Many legal professionals are familiar with eDiscovery and the benefits the technology provides. However, what may not be common knowledge is the power that artificial intelligence brings to the table and the techniques that...more

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Companies Can Protect Proprietary Data When Responding to CCPA Privacy Requests

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Since its passage almost three years ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has offered California-based consumers certain rights over the personal information companies collect and process about them. While...more

Kilpatrick

Monthly Minute | Protecting Against Data Scrapers

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Once a month, we cover an interesting topic in 60 seconds. This month, Richard Goldstucker and Jeff Fisher discuss protecting your organization's data against data scrapers....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 6

Binance Probed by CFTC Over Whether U.S. Residents Traded - "Binance, which has an office in Singapore but says it lacks a single corporate headquarters, hasn’t been accused of misconduct and the investigation may not lead...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Electric Fence: Protecting Proprietary Rights in Collected Energy Data

Like companies in other industries, a growing number of modern energy-related companies are focusing their efforts on data collection and analysis. For example, Enphase – an energy technology company – regularly tracks data...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

TikTok, Nosy Apps And Your IT Security: What Employers Should Know

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Memes, funny videos and entertaining dance routines are often what go viral on social media these days … but earlier this year, it was a warning about social media that became the talk — or should we say Tok — of the...more

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Scraping Too Much Website Data May Be Trade Secret Misappropriation

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Data scraping is a technique in which automated tools-- robots or “bots”--are used to extract large quantities of data from a website. In some cases, the extracted data has been developed by the website owner with...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Remote Working Laws for Calif. Employers

BB&K Attorneys Damian Moos and Kandice Kim Write About What Employers Should Know in the Southern Calif. Newspaper Group - In response to state and local COVID-19 stay at home orders, many California employers...more

Fish & Richardson

“Scraping” of a Publicly-Accessible Website Database May Be Misappropriation of Trade Secrets

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In a lengthy decision, the Eleventh Circuit held in Compulife v. Newman, No. 18-12004 (11th Cir. May 20, 2020), that a database may contain trade secret information even though the database contents can be accessed through a...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Wholesale Scraping of “Public” Data May Be Trade Secret Misappropriation

In what could be prove to be an important decision within the context of scraping of “public” data, in a recent case the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of trade secret claims relating to the scraping of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Protecting Social Media Contact Lists as Trade Secrets

Social media contact lists have become an increasingly important part of a business’s customer lists. While courts are still grappling with who legally “owns” the data that the employee acquired on the employer’s dime—such...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

3 Steps in Furtherance of Avoiding Devastating Spoliation Sanctions in Trade Secret Misappropriation Litigation

Preservation of electronically stored evidence (ESI) may be critical in trade secret cases. When a dispute revolves around whether a defendant accessed and/or transmitted the plaintiff’s trade secret material maintained in an...more

Kilpatrick

Key Takeaways - IP Protection for Data

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Data-driven businesses derive enormous value from data. That data, for example, is often collected from the businesses’ website visitors. Data scrapers are automated scripts that collect data from websites. But, what if a...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2019

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In This Issue - New Privacy Regulations Weaken the Foundation of Smart Cities - New privacy regulations are threatening the full value and promise of smart cities through more stringent requirements for data collection,...more

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The Smartphone: A Treasure Trove of Evidence in Trade Secret Cases

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It’s hard to believe the first smartphone was released over 20 years ago. At that time, few thought it would become such an integral part of our lives. Additionally, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the iPhone and its...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Employment Law - July 2016 #2

Take Two: EEOC Amends Pay Data Collection Proposal - Why it matters - Tweaking its initial plan, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released an updated proposal about the collection of pay data from...more

Gray Reed

Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 3

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The basics of the Texas Anti-SLAPP law In part three we are going to deep dive into a specific case that has garnered a lot of attention-Schlumberger v. Rutherford which is currently on appeal to the Houston Court of...more

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