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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

Federal Precedents Under the DTSA Have Arrived

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/2/2016

While the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) has only been in effect for a few months, the first wave of cases raising DTSA claims have started to generate federal decisions. In what appears to be the first substantive...more

Does The Federal Trade Secrets Act Make A Difference For Connecticut Employers?

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 7/12/2016

The federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (the President signed it on May 11th) went on the books with a lot of fanfare. For the first time, employers (and other trade secret owners) have a federal law claim for trade secret...more

Time to Review Your Confidentiality Agreements: New Federal Trade Secrets Act Creates Private Right of Action and Imposes New...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/17/2016

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 (DTSA), which establishes a new federal private right of action for trade secret misappropriation, is now the law. Trade secrets, the fourth leg of the intellectual property chair, have...more

Protecting Trade Secrets: A New Arrow in the Quiver

Benesch on 5/12/2016

A new weapon in the effort to protect trade secret information came into existence on May 11, 2016 as President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”). DTSA creates a new federal cause of action for trade...more

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016: Implications for business, employers and employees

McAfee & Taft on 5/5/2016

On April 27, 2016, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), which President Obama promises to sign soon. This proposed legislation, which is designed to be an expansion of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, would...more

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