We are pleased to announce the webinar “Protecting Trade Secrets and Intellectual Property in Business Transactions” is now available as a podcast and webinar recording.

In Seyfarth’s ninth installment of its 2014 Trade Secrets Webinar series, Seyfarth attorneys focused on considerations involving protecting trade secrets and intellectual property in business transactions, including, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other
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On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. Central, in the final installment of our 2014 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys Michael Baniak, Joseph Lanser and Randy Bruchmiller will focus on considerations involving protecting trade secrets and intellectual property in business transactions, including, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other collaborative arrangements.

Summary of topics:

  • How to properly address


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The Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act was signed into law in 2013 and applies to any misappropriation of trade secrets occurring on or after September 1, 2013.  Texas trial and appellate courts will be interpreting these new provisions of Texas law as new trade secrets cases work their way through the legal system.  Randy Bruchmiller weighs in on a couple
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Seismic information about potential oil and gas reservoirs and other sensitive data are regularly used by energy companies to make business decisions and compete in the market. Energy companies must take reasonable precautions to protect such trade secrets. For example, trade secret status may be destroyed if the trade secret is disclosed to a party that has not signed a
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Until recently, Texas common law governed misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuits in Texas. That changed when he 2013 Texas legislature adopted a version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”). The new act is known as the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“TUTSA”). New York and Massachusetts are now the only two states to not adopt some form or variation


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Texas recently adopted a version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”).  The new act will be known as the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“TUTSA”).  New York and Massachusetts are now the only two states to not adopt some form or variation of the UTSA.         

The TUTSA takes effect during the Labor Day weekend on September 1, 2013.  However,
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A recent appellate decision out of the Beaumont Court of Appeals may throw a new wrinkle into Texas’s ever-evolving law on physician noncompetition agreements.

In Texas, physician noncompetition agreements must contain buyout provisions to be enforceable. That is, the physician must be allowed to buy his or her way out of the geographical and temporal restrictions the noncompetition agreement imposes.
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On May 2, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act.

The new law adopts a version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.

The law will take effect on September 1, 2013 and will apply to a misappropriation of trade secrets that takes place on or after that date.

I summarized some of the
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The theft of trade secrets by foreign companies, especially those in China, from American companies is a hot topic among lawmakers and in the press. A recent opinion from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to the ability of American companies to bring lawsuits in the United States for trade secret theft  in some circumstances, at least
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Texas, New York, North Carolina, and Massachusetts are the only states that do not subscribe to some version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”).

Common law presently governs misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuits in Texas.

Legislation was recently proposed that, if enacted, would adopt a version of the UTSA for the State of Texas. The common law of Texas
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