Suing An Employee for Trade Secret Misappropriation
April 11, 2019When an employee leaves for another job and takes company trade secrets with him or her, the misappropriation can have significant financial consequences. The company can lose its investment and the competitive advantage it derived from its trade secrets. Fortunately, a victim of trade secrets misappropriation do…
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Can Employees’ Social Media Contacts be Considered Company Trade Secrets?
January 23, 2019While it has been established by many courts that a customer list may constitute a protectable trade secret, the question of whether a former employee’s maintenance of social media contacts constitutes misappropriation of trade secrets is a relatively new question that has come before the courts in the past few y…
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What Arizona Companies Need to Know About the Defend Trade Secrets Act
November 1, 2018The Defend Trade Secrets Act is one of the most significant pieces of intellectual property legislation in years. This law creates a federal cause of action for trade secret misappropriation as well as some new tools for protecting valuable business information, including whistleblower protections and ex parte civi…
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