2-Minute Jimmy Kimmel Clip Shows Our Cybersecurity Culture Crisis
This video speaks volumes about our country’s attitudes towards cybersecurity: Last week, I wrote about the importance of creating a culture that makes protection of trade secrets a top-line priority....
View ArticleProfessors Invent Threat of “Trade Secret Trolls”
I’ve written several times in the past about the proposed legislation to create a federal cause of action for trade-secrets misappropriation (see here, here, and here). I also wrote a response to a...
View ArticleThe DOJ Announced Another Trade-Secrets Prosecution. What Does That Mean For...
There has been a lot of news coverage of the DOJ’s charges against Chinese professors for trade-secrets theft and violations of the Economic Espionage Act. Stories like this have become more common, as...
View Article“Just Doin Blow and Erasing Evidence”
As the Defend Trade Secrets Act—which would create a federal cause of action for trade-secrets theft—makes its way through Congress, critics have focused on the proposed statute’s ex parte seizure...
View ArticleShark Tank and College Football Non-Competes
Two recent stories show why all companies should at least consider implementing non-compete agreements or other restrictive covenants. First, here’s a link to a short interview with Shark Tank’s Robert...
View ArticleTrump and Trade Secrets: Signs of Encourgagement?
I’ve written several times about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric suggesting radical foreign-policy changes could threaten US companies’ trade secrets. See here and here. In particular, I’ve been concerned...
View ArticleAlley-Oops: The Orlando Magic Tweeted a Picture Showing Team Trade Secrets
Sometimes companies forget about even the most obvious protections for their trade secrets. For example, “don’t tweet out a picture of your secret business strategies.” The Orlando Magic recently did...
View ArticleWill Two Lawyers Go to Jail for Asserting Trade Secrets in Bad Faith?
Two South Florida lawyers are facing possible jail time, in part because of allegedly asserting in bad faith that documents contained trade secrets. They supposedly wanted to prevent disclosure of...
View ArticleSupreme Court to (Possibly) Address Trade Secrets
The U.S. Supreme Court rarely hears cases involving trade secrets, primarily because trade secrets have historically been governed by state law. Now that we have the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), it...
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Supreme Court Discusses Trade Secrets During Oral Argument
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, a case involving an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Supreme Court’s Public...
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