Category: Intellectual Property
Protect Your Trade Secrets
In 2016, U.S. Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), which created a body of federal trade secret laws that almost mirrored the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”). The DTSA and UTSA govern trade secret protection in nearly every state and federal jurisdiction in the United States, and allow an owner of a trade
New Law Makes Trade Secret Protection Uniform, But Creates New Controversy
On May 11, 2016, President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) into law. The DTSA provides a new federal court civil remedy for acts of trade secret misappropriation, among other key provisions. This is a major step forward in the protection of intellectual property in the United States, and not only because