Federal law has long protected owners of patents, copyrights and trademarks from infringement of those intellectual property rights. Trade secret owners, however, traditionally had to rely on state law to protect their trade secrets from improper use or disclosure. Congress has now given trade secret owners an additional avenue for protecting their intellectual property: the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the “DTSA”). The DTSA creates a civil cause of action under federal law for misappropriation of trade secrets.
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