Noncompete agreements have for about a decade been the focus of legislative efforts around the country. Some states seek to strengthen enforcement of them, while others seek to scale them back or elim...
Noncompetes are intended to protect legitimate business interests in appropriate circumstances, including when necessary for the protection of a company's trade secrets, confidential information, or ...
On May 19, 2017, Texas passed An Act Relating to the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act. The Act defines "clear and convincing" (which is the standard for showing willfulness under the Texas Uni...
As regular readers of this blog know, several years ago, I became curious to see how many reported trade secret / noncompete decisions were issued each year in all federal and state courts around the...
Every state but Massachusetts and New York has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (the UTSA) in one form or another – though some may quibble with whether Alabama or North Carolina actually ad...
As regular readers of this blog know, several years ago, I became curious to see how many reported trade secret / noncompete decisions were issued each year in all federal and state courts around the...
After years of trying (8, to be precise - the first bills were filed, virtually simultaneously as it turned out, by Representative Lori Ehrlich and then-Representative (now Senator) Will Brownsberge...
Updated 1/26/2016 After years of legal wrangling, Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs engineer who stole high frequency trading code from Goldman Sachs and took it with him for use at Teza...
Hello all, just a quick note, depending upon where you are located, there are a few upcoming trade secret related presentations that are worth attending. (In the interest of full disclosure: I am inv...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect several recent state law developments (in particular, limits on physician noncompetes in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island)....
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update. There's a lot to catch up on (sorry!) … Remember that the Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete...
Earlier today (October 25, 2016), the White House announced a new initiative to spur competition in the labor market. As part of its new initiative, the White House issued a report entitled, “N...
[Chart updated on February 4, 2017] Every state but Massachusetts and New York has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (the UTSA) in one form or another - though some may quibble with whether A...
To the surprise of many, the efforts of the Conference Committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of Massachusetts' noncompete bill (and bill proposing the adoption of the Uniform Trade Sec...
As of last night, Massachusetts has two competing versions of noncompete and trade secrets law reform bills. The House version (H.4434) is described here, and the Senate version (S.2418) (which d...
The Massachusetts Senate voted tonight on Massachusetts trade secrets law and noncompete law reform. Senators proposed multiple amendments to the version of the bill that Senator Mark Montigny, ...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … (My apologies to those who received an email update with a draft of this post.) Also, no...
Although I am away (and posting from the Muir Woods - which are quite remarkable), I wanted to post a quick update on the status of the Massachusetts noncompete and UTSA bill. More details later. In t...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Federal: The Defend Trade Secrets Act is now law of the land. The United States now (offic...
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) is now law of the land, and the United States now (officially) has a national trade secrets law with a concomitant private civil right of action. Specifically,...
I posted yesterday that President Obama had signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act, including a lengthy summary of the bill, it's history, what it does, and what (I think) it will mean for companies....
After 5 years in the making, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the "DTSA") was signed into law today by President Obama (following a unanimous vote by the Senate (87-0) and nearly unanimous vote...
This is a very quick post, with details to follow tomorrow. We've all been waiting for it, and it's happening tomorrow: President Obama is scheduled to sign the Defend Trade Secrets Act (aka the...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Federal: The president has until Saturday to sign or veto the DTSA. "[D]escribed as the '...