While trade secrets provide several noteworthy advantages over patents, trademarks, and copyrights, establishing and ...

Trade secret protection can be the reason a business survives, or is one day sold for a lot of money. Not protecting trade secrets can result in business failure or mediocrity. A trade secret may be a ...

AI companies should familiarize themselves with trade secret law to safeguard their innovations. A company does not need to register a trade secret to invoke it in litigation, unlike other IP ...

“One of the unique aspects of trade secret law…is that the boundaries of the right are not specified in a government-issued grant…. As a result, identification of the subject matter – and when and how ...

Recent case law confirms that trade secret owners should proactively investigate any suspicions of theft, and if they do not, they may be at greater risk of being barred under the statute of ...

May 03, 2024 - It is well established that, once a patent issues, the subject matter contained in the patent is publicly available and therefore no longer entitled to trade secret protection. As one ...

On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision reversing the Eastern District of ...

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Trade secret enforcement is a growing frontier for intellectual property litigation. While patent litigation has long been the incumbent, over the course of the past decade or so we have seen ...

A 26-year engineer jumped to a rival without a non-compete – and the Sixth Circuit just made it easier for his old employer ...