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Article: Employment Alert: Court Of Appeals Ruling Potentially Streamlines Trade Secret Litigation.
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Whether on the complaining or defending end of a trade secret complaint, employers can agree on one thing: trade secret litigation is expensive. Over the past several years, what was already a costly process had become even more burdensome, as litigants expended tens of thousands of dollars bringing and defending against motions — even holding full-blown "mini trials" — to determine whether the trade secrets at issue had been identified with sufficient particularity to allow the plaintiff to begin trade secret discovery. Companies with trade secrets at risk faced a dilemma: on the one hand, trade secret law demands that companies use "reasonable efforts" ...