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Texas enacts Uniform Trade Secrets Act

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 13 2013

The Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act ("TUTSA") was recently signed into law and will take effect on September 1, 2013. TUTSA primarily codifies

Virginia Federal Court dismisses trade secrets misappropriation claim based on power brokering and tax expertise

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 12 2013

On May 30, 2013, a federal judge in Virginia dismissed a tax consultant's trade secrets misappropriation claim against its telecomm customers, ruling

Federal trade secret enforcement initiative results in swift action

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2013

In February 2013, the Justice Department announced a federal trade secret enforcement initiative that rested in large part on encouraging American

Commission avoids deciding whether breach of contract is an unfair act under Section 337; issues another exclusion order for overseas trade secret misappropriation

  • King & Spalding LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2013

In Certain Electric Fireplaces, Inv. Nos. 337-TA-791826, the Commission reviewed the question of whether breach of contract constitutes a violation

New Texas statute provides businesses with added protection for their trade secrets

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2013

It is 4:00 p.m. On a Friday afternoon. You just learned that your top-performing salesman resigned his position to accept employment with a direct

Fifth Circuit affirms $44.4 million jury award for trade secret misappropriation of software developed for oil and gas industry

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2013

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a jury verdict awarding $26.2 million in compensatory damages and $18.2 million in punitive

Guidelines for protecting company trade secrets

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2013

"Trade secrets" are generally defined as confidential proprietary information that provides a business with a competitive advantage or actual or

Texas joins 47 other states to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2013

On May 2, 2013, Governor Rick Perry signed the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (TUTSA), a substantially similar law to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 modifies U.S. design patent law

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2013

While much attention has been given to the recent, significant changes in U.S. patent law arising from the America Invents Act ("AIA"), lesser

Court interprets settlement agreement to allow for fee recovery

  • Barger & Wolen LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2013

In Khavarian Enterprises Inc. v. Commline Inc.,2013 DJDAR 6107 (2013) the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District overruled the