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Generalized Claims of Damages Foil Request for Trade Secrets Misappropriation Injunction

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Here is a common scenario: A key employee resigns, and the former employer discovers that on the way out he emailed to a personal account sensitive business information including financial and strategic planning data. ...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Denied! Judge Davis rejects a “half-hearted” approach to obtaining a preliminary injunction

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To secure a preliminary injunction, a party must present evidence of two things, and fast: (1) likelihood of success on the merits; and (2) irreparable harm. In this recent Order of Significance (denying a preliminary...more

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Can You Get a Court to Stop Someone from Sharing Customer/Client Lists?

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Can you get a court to stop someone from sharing customer/client lists in Arkansas? As explained in this blog post, it depends. But often the question is debatable and hiring an attorney experienced in unfair competition...more

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Finding Irreparable Harm: 5th Circuit Vacates Refusal to Enter Preliminary Injunction

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Injunctions are a powerful deterrent against those who seek to misappropriate valuable trade secrets. And without preliminary injunctions — which typically last until the conclusion of a trial — trade secret owners can face...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Fifth Circuit Spares Trade Secrets Suit, But Clarifies That Specific Evidence of Irreparable Harm Must Support Request for...

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In Direct Biologics L.L.C. v. McQueen, et al., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a lower court’s dismissal of a trade secret and restrictive covenants suit, but nonetheless stressed the need for movants...more

Butler Snow LLP

Tennessee Federal Court Enjoins Misuse of Employer’s Trade Secrets

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Misappropriation of trade secrets claims often turn on whether the information that was taken is truly a “trade secret.” In considering whether information is a trade secret, courts consider a number of factors, including...more

Franczek P.C.

A Not So Sweet Deal for Employers Seeking to Protect Trade Secrets Under the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine

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An Illinois appellate court recently clarified the outer limits of the controversial “inevitable disclosure doctrine” under the Illinois Trade Secrets Act....more

Fisher Phillips

A Company’s Facebook Snooping Didn’t Prevent Critical Trade Secrets Injunction

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Can a former employer’s alleged misconduct defeat a request for injunctive relief against former employees when those departing workers take confidential information and clients to another employer? A federal appeals court...more

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Don’t Worry, Your Secret is Safe With Me

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Many defendants attempt to defend claims for trade secret misappropriation by claiming that they never used or disclosed the information in question. Based on a recent ruling by a federal district court in New York, however,...more

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Defend Trade Secrets Act: Recent Developments Raise Questions About Inadvertent Disclosure

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The Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), signed into law last year by President Obama, revolutionized intellectual property law by creating a new civil cause of action permitting trade secret owners to sue for misappropriation...more

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Industrial Espionage and the Defend Trade Secrets Act

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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

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