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DTSA Developments Raise Inadvertent Disclosure Questions

By Victoria Bruno, David Hamilton and Hillary Colonna (August 17, 2017, 12:32 PM EDT) -- The Defend Trade Secrets Act, signed into law last year by then-President Barack Obama, revolutionized intellectual property law by creating a new civil cause of action permitting trade secret owners to sue for misappropriation in federal court under federal law. Prior to the DTSA, trade secret owners had to rely on state law to remedy misappropriation or to enjoin former employees without noncompete agreements from going to work for a competitor simply because of the confidential information they learned or had access to during the course of their employment....

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