May 03, 2024 - It is well established that, once a patent issues, the subject matter contained in the patent is publicly available and therefore no longer entitled to trade secret protection. As one ...

Like most states, North Carolina law protects employers from misappropriation of confidential and proprietary trade secrets. Last month, the North Carolina Business Court (a division of the Superior ...

Trade secret rights and contractual nondisclosure agreements are now more important than ever. In addition to enforcement of other contract provisions barring departing employees from taking or ...

In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) decision to prohibit noncompetition agreements, attorneys are striving to ...

Regardless of whether the FTC’s ban on non-competes goes into effect, businesses should stop relying on these agreements ...

Companies often argue that they need noncompetes to protect their trade secrets. But do they? What does a world without ...

April 09, 2024 - There are four types of intellectual property rights: patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Only two of these intellectual property rights protect information ...

A former Jane Street Group trader who moved to Millennium Management ridiculed his former employer’s claims that he used its ...

Perimeter Solutions LP sued a Compass Minerals International Inc. unit for allegedly stealing its trade secrets after hiring ...

Jane Street vs. Millennium, Trump Media vs. Citadel Securities, the Mango guy, gambling, risk parity, Costco and XLYO.

Tribal-owned entity Aquate II LLC will have another chance to pursue a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that tribal-owned company Kituwah Services LLC and an employee improperly took private information ...

CesiumAstro alleges in a newly filed lawsuit that a former executive disclosed trade secrets and confidential information about sensitive tech, investors and customers to a competing startup.