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Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Best Practices to Safeguard Your Company’s Trade Secrets — Case Study

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The number one risk for trade secrets exfiltration is from insider threats—employees, contractors, or even executives with access to sensitive information who either intentionally or accidentally compromise it. Sometimes it’s...more

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Top 6 Employer Takeaways From New EEOC Wearable Tech Guidance

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Wearable technologies are becoming increasingly common in the workplace, but a new guidance document from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made it clear that employers need to tread carefully. From smart...more

Venable LLP

I Wonder as They Wander: Revisiting Remote Work Policies

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As the pandemic appears to subside, employers are grappling with whether and how to maintain remote work. For some employers, this means revisiting their pre-pandemic remote work policy; for others this means deciding whether...more

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Preparing to Return to the Office: Trade Secrets in the Post-Pandemic World

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It is often said that every crisis also presents an opportunity. The current COVID-19 pandemic presents the chance to revise and improve protective strategies for trade secrets. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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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Here’s What You Need To Know About Protecting Trade Secrets

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What do you do when a key employee leaves and you believe he/she has taken your company’s trade secrets to a competitor? Or when a strategic business partner uses your trade secret information to compete against you?...more

Butler Snow LLP

Court Allows Company to Surreptitiously Monitor Former Employee’s Social Media Account to Support its Trade Secrets Claim

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A federal court of appeals recently found that there was nothing wrong with a company monitoring a departed employee’s Facebook account and using that information to pursue a trade secrets claim against four former employees....more

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Third Circuit: Spying on Former Employee’s Social Media Account Does Not Constitute “Unclean Hands” to Bar Trade Secret...

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Consider this: a former employee has just left his or her employer and may have taken trade secrets to a competitor. ...more

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