Last year, Sergey Aleynikov, a computer programmer, beat federal charges of trade secret theft under the Economic Espionage Act. Although Aleynikov was initially convicted, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his conviction, finding that the trade secrets relating to the source code Aleynikov had taken were not related to a product “produced for. …. Continue Reading
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United States Senate Unanimously Approves the Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act
Posted in Data Theft, Espionage, Legislation, Trade SecretsLast week, the United States Senate unanimously approved the Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act (“the TTSCA”). The TTSCA, which was co-authored by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Senator Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, was introduced as S.3462 in order to strengthen the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (“the EEA”). To achieve this goal, the… Continue Reading
Employers Thankful For New Second Circuit Non-Compete Decision
Posted in Non-Compete Enforceability, Practice & Procedure, Restrictive Covenants, UncategorizedBy Jessica Mendelson and Grace Chuchla Employers in the Second Circuit are thankful for a recent non-compete summary order in which the Court found that an employee’s challenge of his non-compete agreement by way of a preliminary injunction motion failed because he failed to show irreparable injury. Specifically, the Court found that an employee’s potential loss of income does not qualify as an irreparable injury in… Continue Reading
Defects in Summary Judgment Procedure Send Jasco v. Dana Trade Secrets Case Back to Bankruptcy Court
Posted in Trade SecretsIn a 56-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sent a long-pending trade secrets case, Jasco Tools, Inc. v. Dana Corporation, Appeal No. 08-2762-bk, back to the lower court for further proceedings because of the bankruptcy court’s "flawed application of well established summary judgment principles." (Slip Op. at 32.) In the… Continue Reading