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Are employer social networking accounts protectable trade secrets?

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2012

Social media has become an increasingly important tool for businesses to market their products and services

California federal court finds that plaintiff's claims are not preempted by the California Uniform Trade Secrets act in Farmville spat

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 9 2012

On February 6, 2012, a federal court in Oakland, California denied the popular Facebook application “Farmville” operator’s (Zynga, Inc.) motion to dismiss several claims brought by the inventor of “myFarm” (SocialApps, LLC, or “SA”)) for alleged theft of the source code, game images, and “concepts and features” used in the myFarm app

Customer lists by another name social media and trade secrets - part 1

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

Employers are well aware of the various implications that the social media explosion has on the workplace. The various issues created by Facebook

Can trade secrets owners plug an internet WikiLeaks?

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • January 3 2011

No self-respecting blog on trade secrets could let the recent news of WikiLeaks' mass publication of top-secret government cables go without comment

Who owns your Twitter account?

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2012

We’ve talked before about who owns social media profiles, content, etc., but we had not seen much guidance yet from the courts

Lawsuit - are Twitter followers a protectable customer list?

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 26 2011

Phonedog.com sued a former employee for theft of their customer list when his 17,000 Twitter followers went to his new Twitter name after he quit

Claim that ex-employee twittered away company trade secrets allowed to proceed

  • Littler Mendelson
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2012

A case being litigated in the Northern District of California has the potential to set new and interesting precedent on how the laws of unfair competition will deal with social media

Click wrap? Forget it: federal court finds that violation of online clickwrap agreement not enough to constitute trade secret misappropriation under California law

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2012

On February 13, 2012, a federal judge in Los Angeles, California dismissed a remote-access software company’s claim that one of its customers violated the California Trade Secrets Act, Cal. Civ. Code 3426.1 et seq., by downloading a trial version of plaintiff’s Mac-environment remote-access software and “reverse engineering” its own program

Washington court clarifies pleading requirements for CFAA claims

  • Littler Mendelson
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2012

Trade secret disputes increasingly center on an ex-employee copying trade secret information from the former employer’s computer system and using that information to benefit his or her new employer

My friends are your friends? U.S. court rules that an employer’s myspace “friends” list can be a trade secret

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • June 22 2012

In a decision that may one day be cited by Canadian courts on the extent of an employer’s rights over its social media properties, the United States District Court for Colorado has ruled that an employer’s MySpace Profile and “Friends” list can qualify as trade secrets

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