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AI in the Factory: What Manufacturers Must Consider

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As generative artificial intelligence and machine learning continue their rapid rise in popularity and uses in business operations, manufacturers are faced with how to implement AI in a manner that allows them to take...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Tips for Conducting a Trade Secret Assessment with Rob Jensen

Trade secrets aren’t static. Companies should regularly reassess the status of their trade secrets and make necessary adjustments to ensure they remain protected at all times. In this episode of IP Talk, shareholder Rob...more

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

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Employees using free or unauthorized AI tools at work?

The rise of artificial intelligence has brought both opportunities and challenges to the workplace. However, a growing trend of employees using free or unauthorized AI tools poses significant risks, from security breaches to...more

Kilpatrick

5 Key Takeaways | Protecting Your IP When People are Coming and Going

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Kilpatrick’s Katie Barton, Nena Bains, and Destiny Williams recently presented a webinar in partnership with the Association of Corporate Council on the topic of “Protecting Your IP When People are Coming and Going.”...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Preventing Trade Secret Theft: Proactive Strategies for In-House Counsel

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Ed. Note: This is the last in a series of articles taken from Gavin Parsons' CLE presentation for the North Carolina Bar Association's Antitrust and Complex Business Dispute CLE Program presented on Thursday, January 30,...more

Fisher Phillips

Protecting Trade Secrets in the Life Sciences Industry: 8 Steps to Prevent Corporate Espionage and Theft

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Protecting trade secrets in any business is critical, but the stakes are higher in life sciences. Given the high focus on innovation in the industry, corporate espionage can result in devastating financial and reputational...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Wyoming Bans Most Non-Compete Agreements

Wyoming just banned most non-compete agreements (Wyo. Stat. § 1-23-108): starting July 1, 2025, most agreements that restrict workers from working in competitive jobs will be void, absent some exceptions for: High-Level...more

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Wyoming Bans Non-Compete Covenants with Some Exceptions

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On March 19, 2025, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed into law Senate File 107, now Enrolled Act No. 87 (the “Act”), which makes any covenant not to compete that restricts the right of any person to receive compensation for...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Trade Secrets in Hollywood: Lessons from Oscar-Nominated Films - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast

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This week, on our Spilling Secrets podcast series, our panelists dig into trade secrets lessons employers can learn from hit movies: In this episode, Epstein Becker Green attorneys Daniel R. Levy, Aime Dempsey, and George...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

FAQs: Wine Industry Intellectual Property Protection

For wineries, managing intellectual property (IP) is crucial to maintaining brand identity and protecting creative investments. While general IP principles apply across many sectors, wineries face unique challenges and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Cybersecurity in the Age of Industry 4.0 - Part 2

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This is the second article in our two-part series on Cybersecurity in the Age of Industry 4.0, focusing on the legal implications and potential liabilities manufacturers face from cyberattacks, as well as practical...more

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[Webcast Transcript] From Breach to Insight: Incident Response & PII Recovery

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Editor’s Note: In this informative webcast, Christopher Wall, DPO and Special Counsel for Global Privacy and Forensics at HaystackID, moderates a compelling discussion titled “From Breach to Insight: Incident Response and PII...more

Adams & Reese

FTC Issues Rule to Ban Non-Competes; U.S. Chamber Threatens Lawsuit; What Do Employers Need to Know?

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued the Non-Compete Clause Rule on Tuesday, calling for a comprehensive ban on non-compete agreements nationwide. The FTC concluded that non-competes are an “unfair method of competition...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Protecting Your Company’s Confidential Information: Takeaways from Meta’s Lawsuit Against Its Former Employee

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and other products, recently filed a lawsuit in a California state court against a former vice president for allegedly taking confidential information from Meta...more

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

AI in the Workplace: Crafting Policies for Employees’ Use of Generative AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in workplaces, providing new opportunities as well as new challenges for employers and employees. While AI has the potential to improve efficiency and...more

Fisher Phillips

AI on Campus: The 5 Things Higher Ed Needs to Consider When Crafting AI Workplace Policies

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Higher education leaders have plenty of cutting-edge legal issues to follow – affirmative action, freedom of speech, discrimination – but you are now on the front lines when it comes to the appropriate use of generative...more

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Recognizing Risk: When Pursuing A Competitive Edge Creates Exposure to Trade Secret Claims

A well-known idiom - widely credited to Ben Franklin in the 1700s - is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Yet, few companies actively train their personnel to recognize the risk of a trade secret...more

StoneTurn

Trust and National Security: Lessons for Business Insider Threat Programs

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The recent arrest and criminal charges against Airman First Class Jack Teixeira for the alleged posting of classified and sensitive information on social media is yet another example of the significant risk that trusted...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

Epstein Becker & Green

#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Employers - Train on Trade Secrets - Employment Law This Week®

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This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law. An employer often overlooks training employees on what their restrictive covenant means and how to honor...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

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

Erise IP

A Trade Secret Storm Looms: Six Steps to Take Now

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A storm is brewing in the intellectual property world, and it’s heading straight for trade secrets. With millions of Americans quitting their jobs each month — 4.3 million in December alone — and pandemic-stunned...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Benefits of and Best Practices for Protecting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Inventions as Trade Secrets

We previously discussed which portions of an artificial intelligence/machine-learning (“AI/ML”) platform can be patented. Under what circumstances, however, is it best to keep at least a portion of the platform a trade...more

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