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Trade Secret Protection in Life Sciences: Strategies for Success

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Late last month, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) hosted a panel on Trade Secret Protection in Life Sciences: Strategies for Success. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, trade secrets are becoming...more

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Court Finds Access to Botox Trade Secrets and Similarity of Competitor Product Supported Inference of Trade Secrets...

Proving access to and use of trade secrets are core elements in a trade secrets misappropriation case. Recent rulings in a trade secrets action filed by Allergan against its competitor Revance Therapeutics (“Revance”)...more

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Best Practices to Protect Your Intellectual Property When an Employee Leaves the Company

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The current employment market is placing incredible stress on businesses, many of which are struggling to find enough employees to simply cover shifts. Pay increases and higher recruiting costs, consequently, continue to...more

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Insider Risk and The Protection of Critical Trade Secrets

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While the global pandemic has highlighted the perils of remote work, decades of collective experience undertaking internal investigations for corporations and their advisors in connection with the misappropriation of...more

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Protecting Trade Secrets in Texas: How Do You Identify and Secure a Trade Secret?

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To maintain its protection under Texas law, how do you keep a trade secret, secret? Under §134A of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, also known as the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act or TUTSA, a trade secret...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Post-TianRui: A Survey of Trade Secret Litigation and Extraterritoriality in the ITC

In 2011, the Federal Circuit in TianRui Grp. Co. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n affirmed the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) authority to look to extraterritorial conduct of a respondent to determine whether that respondent...more

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SEC Proposes Extensive New Regulations for Private Fund Advisers

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In an extensive release,1 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), proposed new and amended rules (collectively, the Proposed Rules) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Act) that would impose specific...more

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The Increasing Importance of Trade Secrets and Trade Secret Asset Management Explained

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Trade secrets have, up until recently, been somewhat ignored. When I started to pay attention to trade secrets, some of my colleagues and contacts probably thought that I was mad. ...more

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Spring Cleaning: Tidying Up Your “Reasonable Efforts” to Maintain Trade Secrets

It’s among an in-house counsel’s worst nightmares. A former business partner, ex-employee, consultant, or competitor has stolen your company’s trade secret information. Company management demands swift action....more

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FINRA Issues Guidance on the Handling of Customers When a Broker Leaves a Firm

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently issued some expectations/guidance to industry members on FINRA’s expectations when a broker leaves for another firm....more

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How To Keep Your Company’s Trade Secret Protections From Being A Halloween Fright Night

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Built into the definition of a trade secret is the requirement to have reasonable secrecy measures. Companies that do not use non-disclosure agreements with their employees can be at a tremendous disadvantage if they decide...more

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Illinois Court Confers Another Win for Employees in Non-solicitation and Trade Secrets Case

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In a recent decision, the Northern District of Illinois continued its trend of invalidating employment agreements, this time in regard to a non-solicitation provision it determined to be overbroad. In Call One, Inc. v....more

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Key Considerations to Protect Against Insider Threats in Cybersecurity

Most companies have strengthened their cybersecurity defenses against outside hackers, but many often neglect the equal threat posed by those within their network walls — employees who already have privileged access to...more

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This Week In Securities Litigation

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The SEC named ratings giant Standard & Poor’s in three actions this week and one of its senior executives in another. The firm settled all three actions, admitting to a series of facts but not violations of the law in one...more

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