Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana bill went into effect in 2016. In order to obtain a permit under that bill, potential medical marijuana grower/processors or dispensaries are required to provide detailed business information with their applications. However, under the state’s Right-to-Know Law
Trade Secrets Trends
Analysis and Commentary on the Latest Developments in Trade Secrets Protection, Disputes, and Enforcement
Trade Secrets Trends, published by Crowell & Moring LLP, focuses on legal developments and practical issues related to trade secret protection, particularly within the European and Belgian legal context. The blog covers topics such as the interpretation and enforcement of trade secret laws by courts, requirements for qualifying information as a trade secret, remedies for misappropriation, burden of proof challenges, and procedural aspects of trade secret litigation. It also addresses the roles of various parties involved in trade secret disputes, including former employees, contractors, and companies, as well as recent regulatory changes affecting related areas like non-compete agreements. The blog provides insights into case law trends and strategic considerations for protecting confidential business information.
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Delaware Court Finds L’Oreal Liable for Stolen Secrets
On Monday, August 12, a Delaware federal jury found that L’Oreal USA Inc. misappropriated Olaplex LLC’s trade secrets, breached a nondisclosure agreement, and willfully infringed on two of Olaplex’s patents related to a hair-coloring product. The patents in question related…
Restrictive Covenants in the First Circuit
In the First Circuit, restrictive covenants are governed predominately by statute (with the exception of Puerto Rico, which governs such agreements through common law). Within the last year, Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire have amended their restrictive-covenant statutes to…
Unsealed Indictment Reveals Criminal Charges Related to Uber/Waymo Dispute
On August 26th, 2019, a federal indictment was unsealed, revealing that federal prosecutors have brought 33 criminal charges against a former Google engineer who worked on the company’s self-driving car project from its founding in 2009 through his resignation in…
Restrictive Covenants in the Sixth Circuit
As in other states, the enforceability of restrictive covenants or non-compete clauses in the Sixth Circuit turns primarily on the reasonableness of the restriction’s geographic and temporal scope. Michigan has enacted a statute explaining when non-competes may be enforced. In…
S.D.N.Y. Holds the 2016 DNC WikiLeaks Dump Did Not Violate The Defend Trade Secrets Act
On July 30th, 2019, the District Court for the Southern District of New York held that a news outlet’s publication of the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) allegedly stolen trade secrets did not violate the Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C.…
Confidentiality of Trade Secrets in Arbitration
By John Laird & Julia Milewski
After posts considering confidentiality protections under the EU Trade Secrets Directive 2016/943 when litigating in various jurisdictions, we next turn to how these issues arise in the context of arbitration.
Where trade secrets are protected by a contract, an opportunity…
The Expansion of Confidentiality Protections in Trade Secret and IP Cases in the Netherlands and Belgium
In our next post on the EU Trade Secrets Directive 2016/943, we turn to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the EU Trade Secrets Directive was implemented in 2018 by the Act on the Protection of Trade Secrets (Wet bescherming bedrijfsgeheimen) and…
English Confidentiality Protections in Trade Secret and IP Cases
By John Laird & Julia Milewski
The EU Trade Secrets Directive 2016/943 contains a variety of confidentiality protections expressly protecting the publicity of the proceedings because “[t]he prospect of losing the confidentiality of a trade secret in the course of legal proceedings often deters legitimate trade…
Supreme Court Weighs In On Protecting Trade Secrets and Confidential Information From FOIA Requests
In Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, the Supreme Court strengthened the federal government’s ability to protect trade secrets and confidential business information from disclosure in response to a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request. Food Mktg. Inst. v.