Defend Trade Secrets Act: The New Federal Civil Cause of Action for Trade Secret Misappropriation
By Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine, P.L. January 24, 2017
Although owners of intellectual property, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks, have long had civil redress in federal courts, trade secret litigants have been the “odd man out,” so to speak, of the intellectual property world. However, this omission in the federal landscape was not due to lack of need, …