Trade secret protection has become an increasingly important part of the arsenal of protections available for a company’s intellectual assets.

While companies are starting to better appreciate the role trade secrets can play in underpinning their intellectual capital, proactive trade secret management is still a very much neglected activity.

At first blush an audit sounds expensive, distracting and unnecessary. Let’s face it, we live in the age of the long tail

“China national charged with stealing trade secrets” – U.S. Justice Department

Over the course of my 20+ years practicing law, I have had the honor of working with many individuals at the cutting edge of all aspects of intellectual property.

In litigation, how much specific disclosure is required? During the course of a United States litigation — whether under the new, federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) or the older state-adopted Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)