Welcome to WilmerHale’s bulletin on recent trade secret case law and relevant news items. We’ve affectionately nicknamed it “Readily Ascertainable” because, unlike a trade secret, it should be easy to figure out....more
7/21/2025
/ Application Programming Interface (APIs) ,
Compensatory Damages ,
Copyright ,
Damages ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
IBM ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Legal Ethics ,
Legal Technology ,
Misappropriation ,
Software ,
Summary Judgment ,
Technology Sector ,
Trade Secrets
On March 9, 2020, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously held in Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin that a copyright defendant’s “high degree of access” to a copyrighted work does not lower the plaintiff’s...more
3/12/2020
/ Appeals ,
Burden of Proof ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
En Banc Review ,
Jury Verdicts ,
Led Zeppelin ,
Music ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Reversal
Federal trade secret litigation can be as costly and complex as patent litigation. Unlike patent litigation, however, there has been virtually no appellate guidance on the meaning and scope of the Defend Trade Secrets Act in...more