Seyfarth partners Katherine Perrelli and Dallin Wilson co-authored the United States chapter of Lexology Panoramic’s Trade Secrets 2026 Report. The chapter offers a comprehensive overview of trade secret protection in the U.S., highlighting recent legal developments, enforcement trends, and best practices for safeguarding proprietary information.

Among the emerging issues addressed in this year’s report is the growing impact of generative AI on trade secret protection. As the authors note:

“Companies should also consider implementing policies and procedures regarding employees’ use of generative AI programs while at work. If generative AI programs are able to access confidential information and trade secrets stored on company servers to respond to employee prompts, there is risk that if the product generated by the AI program is later publicly disclosed, the company’s trade secrets could lose their trade secret protection because they could be deemed to no longer be secret and/or because the company did not use reasonable measures to keep them secret under the DTSA.”

To read the full chapter, visit Lexology Panoramic’s Trade Secrets 2026 Report here.