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China Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Trade Secrets, ET, and the ITC

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has broad power to issue exclusion orders blocking the importation of goods determined to have infringed or misappropriated complainants' IP rights. Moreover, the ITC’s in rem...more

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USA v. Wang: Criminal & Civil Liability for Autonomous Vehicle IP & Trade Secrets Theft

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A pending case involving a former engineer, his alleged theft of trade secret autonomous vehicle technology, and a midnight one-way escape flight to China is shedding light on efforts by the tech giant Apple to both develop...more

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Anticipating President Biden’s Intellectual Property Policy in an Historical Context

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Presidential administrations have affected intellectual property (IP) policy since the very beginning of United States history. In his first State of the Union address in 1790, President George Washington addressed patents....more

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Illinois Court Finds China Inadequate Forum For Trade Secret Misappropriation Claims Against Chinese Tech Company

Amidst long-simmering diplomatic tensions between China and the United States, disputes arising out of Chinese companies’ alleged theft of technological trade secrets from rival American companies have found their way to...more

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2020 End-of-Year Review: Key Global Trade Secret Developments

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A trade secret is any information used in one's business that derives independent economic value from being kept secret. Unlike patents, trade secrets are protected indefinitely for as long as they remain a secret. In the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The China Pivot: Closing the “Back Door” to Trade Secret and IP Theft

During the Obama Administration, American foreign policy made a strategic “pivot” to Asia with the goal of establishing a more balanced economic, diplomatic, and security-focused approach and relationship between the U.S. and...more

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Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Protecting Trade Secrets During a Pandemic

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Fear of the coronavirus is causing many employers to permit—or in some cases mandate—employees to work remotely. While this measure is designed to minimize the risk of virus transmission, it presents an altogether different...more

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“Head Start” Damages Affirmed Against Employee Who Started Competitor in China

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An often sought remedy in trade secret cases is unjust enrichment, which DTSA and several uniform state trade secret acts permit plaintiffs to seek for the unlawful benefit received by defendants "that is not addressed in...more

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Recent Criminal Misappropriation of Trade Secrets to China

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Trade secrets can be stolen at any point, and such theft can be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. This is evident in recently unsealed charges brought against a software engineer who stole source code from his United...more

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Trade Secrets May Retain Protections Despite Disclosure to Single Competitor

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The Ninth Circuit recently held in United States v. Liew that it was not plain error for the district court not to instruct the jury that disclosure “‘to even a single recipient who is not legally bound to maintain [a trade...more

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International News: Focus on International Dispute Resolution

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Overview of the Proposed Reforms of the EU Merger Control Regime - In October 2016, the European Commission launched a public consultation to continue the process of identifying possible areas of the EU Merger Regulation...more

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2016 Proskauer Annual Review and Outlook for Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds and Other Private Funds

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This special report provides a summary of some of the significant changes and developments that occurred in the past year in the private equity and hedge funds space, as well as certain recommended practices that investment...more

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Industrial Espionage and the Defend Trade Secrets Act

American corporations are facing an ever increasing threat of misappropriation of their valuable trade secrets through industrial espionage, defined as the theft of a company’s trade secrets by an actor intending to convert...more

JD Supra Perspectives

10 Popular Reads Covering Latest European Union Developments

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Recap of popular updates covering latest developments in the European Union....more

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Employment Law Commentary -- Volume 26, Issue June 2014 -- Protecting Trade Secrets Globally: Comparing The U.S. And EU

International attention to misappropriation of trade secrets has never been at a higher level. In early May 2014, a U.S. federal grand jury indicted several Chinese military officials for allegedly misappropriating trade...more

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