EU Begins Catching Up To US On Trade Secret Law

By Robert Williams and Will Smith (June 20, 2018, 5:40 PM EDT) -- June 9, 2018, was the deadline for EU member states to implement the Trade Secrets Directive, which seeks to both raise and harmonize the minimum standards of protection for trade secrets across the EU. In the U.K., this was the day that the 2018 trade secrets regulations came into force, putting the protection of trade secrets on to the statute book in the U.K. for the first time. The key features of the U.K. regulations, which were published on May 21, 2018, are summarized below....

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