A trade secret plaintiff’s willingness to license its secret does not limit future recovery to a reasonable-royalty measure. In Versata Software, LLC v. Ford Motor Co., Nos. 2024-1140 (Fed. Cir. May ...

Businesses routinely group customer data, pricing models, internal processes, and strategic plans under the “trade secret” umbrella without much analysis. That shorthand works until litigation, at ...

AI poses new risks to trade secrets through data leaks, reverse-engineering, and challenges to protections. Solutions include legal protections (copyright, patents), technical safeguards (encryption, ...

A hotly contested issue in many trade secrets cases is whether the alleged trade secret even qualifies as a trade secret at all. Qualifying as a trade secret often turns less on what the information ...

This article provides practical guidance for counsel and business leaders navigating the growing risks surrounding trade secret protection in an era of remote work, employee mobility, and evolving ...

“The identification of trade secrets with ‘reasonable particularity’ is emerging as a critical threshold requirement for DTSA claims.” Whether the plaintiff has adequately identified the trade secrets ...