Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year’s series included: 2020 Year in Review: What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Computer Fraud Law. The Connection Between Wage and Hour & Restrictive Covenant Law. Employee Termination & Data Repatriation in the Remote Work Environment. View the Recording.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year’s series included: 2020 Year in Review: What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Computer Fraud Law. The Connection Between Wage and Hour & Restrictive Covenant Law. Employee Termination & Data Repatriation in the Remote Work Environment. View the Recording.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

Federal Government Initiatives Recently announced federal government initiatives seek to leverage collective authorities to monitor the development and use of AI and automated systems. As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI. If you have not done so yet, now is a good time to get started.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The breadth of our discussions encompassed a spectrum of critical topics: FTC Proposes Rule Banning Use of Non-Competes. Seyfarth partners Kate Perrelli, Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, Dan Hart, and Dawn Mertineit discussed the new Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) proposed rule banning the use of non-competes with employees and workers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

by guest blogger Dr. Matthias Pendl , Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Only the State Labor Court of Baden-Württemberg depicted the relevant emoji in its ruling of 22 June 2016 (involving the monkey/bear face emoji depicted below); but it referred to them as “emoticons.” Introduction.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The breadth of our discussions encompassed a spectrum of critical topics: FTC Proposes Rule Banning Use of Non-Competes. The FTC bases its rulemaking authority on Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which provides: “The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

Seyfarth attorneys Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, and James Yu will address the following topics: Significant new legislation on non-compete and other restrictive covenants and related court decisions that may impact their enforcement. Recent significant trade secret misappropriation decisions concerning damages, fees, and pleading.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Here they are: Noteworthy Defend Trade Secrets Act Cases, Federal Trade Secrets Opinions and Related Commentary: Who would have thought a case about broccoli seeds could sprout so many interesting legal issues? And while we’re on the topic of an opinion covering multiple interesting trade secret issues, the U.S. Certainly not me.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 29, 2022

At the federal level, we continue to see bipartisan attempts to address a national uniform approach to non-compete covenants. Care should be taken to review state law as to new statutes affecting employee non-compete/non-solicit provisions and applicability with at least 20 states having new statutes and approximately 70 statutes pending.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a virtual workshop on December 6-7, 2021, bringing together agency representatives, lawyers, economists, academics, and other experts to discuss issues affecting competition in the labor market (“Workshop”). How We Got Here.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2022

At the federal level, we continue to see bipartisan attempts to address a national uniform approach to non-compete covenants. Care should be taken to review state law as to new statutes affecting employee non-compete/non-solicit provisions and applicability with at least 20 states having new statutes and approximately 70 statutes pending.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 12, 2023

However, that question does not guarantee federal subject matter jurisdiction, as the defendants learned in a decision remanding an ownership dispute removed to federal court back to state court. the Eighth Circuit joined six other federal circuits that found this form of pleading to be sufficient. In Calvary Indus.,

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 12, 2023

As our colleagues have previously reported in this blog, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) concerning its unprecedented effort to ban all non-compete clauses with workers and to preempt state law on the issue. 15 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

As our colleagues have previously reported in this blog, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) concerning its unprecedented effort to ban all non-compete clauses with workers and to preempt state law on the issue. 15 U.S.C. §

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 12, 2023

As our colleagues have previously reported in this blog, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) concerning its unprecedented effort to ban all non-compete clauses with workers and to preempt state law on the issue. 15 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 9, 2023

December was unusually busy and 2023 started with a bang courtesy of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule banning noncompetes. That is the simple message that many federal courts are sending to trade secret owners, and a recent decision by District Court Judge Nugent of the U.S. More on that debate later.

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