The Third Circuit Addresses the Defend Trade Secrets Act and Appears to Have Applied the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine
USA - July 11 2017 The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) states very clearly that an injunction issued pursuant thereto may not “prevent a person from entering into an...
The Latest East CoastWest Coast Conflict: Massachusetts Courts Consider the Application of California Law in Non-Compete Litigation
USA - June 21 2017 Hearkening back to the rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s, Massachusetts courts (as well as others around the...
ABA Encourages Encryption of Emails When Transmitting Confidential Client Information
USA - May 22 2017 In a recent formal Ethics Opinion, the American Bar Association stressed that lawyers must make reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or...
Will The Massachusetts Legislature Finally Be Able To Keep Its New Year’s Resolution to Pass Non-Compete Reform?
USA - January 25 2017 Last Friday, on January 20, 2017, the Massachusetts Legislature began its annual tradition of attempting to promulgate non-compete and trade secret...
Katherine Perrelli, Andrew T. Stark, Dawn Mertineit.
Federal Court Rejects Defend Trade Secrets Act Whistleblower Immunity Defense on a Motion to Dismiss and Orders Employee to Return Stolen Trade Secrets
USA - December 19 2016 This past Spring, we reported on the recently enacted Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), which provides a new federal civil cause of action to trade...
Robert A. Fisher, Andrew T. Stark.
