Law360, New York (December 16, 2015, 10:27 AM EST) -- 2015 brought significant developments in trade secret law, both in the U.S. and abroad. In-house counsel and private practitioners should consider trends that promise to shape further developments in the years ahead. In part 1 of this two-part series (part 2 will publish in January), we highlight five trends in particular: (1) increased cooperation between the United States and China on cyberattacks; (2) the continued circuit split regarding the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; (3) heightened scrutiny applied to unsupported trade secret suits; (4) the Trans-Pacific Partnership's potential effect on the protection of trade secrets around the world; and (5) the increasing prevalence of threats to confidential information in every field and industry, even America's "national pastime."...
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