2025 Trade Secrets Webinar Series

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
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In today’s always-online world, a single social media post, GitHub upload, or Slack message can put millions of dollars in proprietary data

Continue Reading Webinar – Securing the Invisible: Protecting Trade Secrets in the Age of Oversharing

Tuesday, May 6, 2025
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Join us for the third and final session of our Commercial Litigation Outlook webinar series, where we’ll examine key legal trends shaping the future of trade secrets

Continue Reading Commercial Litigation Outlook Webinar Series – Part 3: Trade Secrets, Privacy & eDiscovery: Safeguarding Data in an Uncertain Legal Landscape

We invite you to watch our webinar, the second installment of the Commercial Litigation Outlook series, titled “Navigating Legal Minefields: Insights on Restrictive Covenants, eDiscovery, and Privacy Compliance.” Our panel, consisting of Rebecca Woods, Dawn Mertineit, James Yu, Jason Priebe, and Matthew Christoff, dissected the ever-evolving world of non-competes and trade secrets.

Here are the key takeaways from the webinar:

Continue Reading Webinar Recap! Navigating Legal Minefields: Insights from Seyfarth’s 2024 Commercial Litigation Outlook

This post was originally published to Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill Blog.

In a recent post, we discussed whether patent applications could provide insight into the blueprints of extraterrestrial spacecraft. Yet, an enigmatic question looms large: would the powers that be genuinely consider patenting such advanced technology, fully aware that patent applications might see the light of day? Or might there be a more clandestine approach, a proverbial cloak of invisibility wielded by the men in black?

Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, federal law prevents the disclosure of new technologies and inventions that may present a national security threat to the United States. Under this act, the Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has the authority to highlight patent applications for scrutiny by U.S. defense departments (e.g., various three-letter and four-letter government agencies), ensuring certain innovations remain confidential. This veil of secrecy could extend to concepts and items conceived by individual civilians. Patents falling under such a secrecy directive are accessible to defense bodies, have export limitations, and are considered classified. Accordingly, the publication of such patent applications, or even the granting of a patent, could be delayed or altogether suppressed. These orders are in place to protect sensitive technologies from falling into the wrong hands. As of 2022, USPTO records show that there were 6,057 secrecy orders in effect. Continue Reading Cloaked in Secrecy: Can Secrecy Orders Shield Alien Innovations?

On July 10th, the European Commission issued its Implementing Decision regarding the adequacy of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The Decision has been eagerly awaited by US and Europe based commerce, hoping it will help business streamline cross-Atlantic data transfers, and by activists who have vowed to scrutinize the next framework arrangement (thereby maintaining their relevance). Regardless of the

Continue Reading Adequacy for the US (kind of) – But What Are the Side Effects?

At the beginning of the pandemic, concerns were raised that trade secret misappropriation might take a new form. Indeed, with large swaths of the workforce working from home, spouses, roommates, or others living in the same area had an increased opportunity to purloin confidential information that might not have been available to them previously.

But a recent case in Massachusetts

Continue Reading Secrets Exposed: Trade Secrets, Trust, and a Multi-Million Dollar Lesson

Wednesday, July 19, 2023
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Confidentiality obligations and restrictive covenants are crucial tools employed by organizations to protect sensitive information, trade secrets, and competitive advantages. However, recent state law and regulatory developments and NLRB decisions

Continue Reading Upcoming Webinar! NLRB and Restrictive Covenants: Trends in Employment Confidentiality

Wednesday, June 21, 2023
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In today’s digital age, trade secrets are an essential asset for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. As businesses continue to operate remotely, protecting trade secrets has become increasingly

Continue Reading Upcoming Webinar! Managing Trade Secrets in a Remote Work Environment

This post was originally published to Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill blog.

Last week, a joint statement was issued by four federal agencies expressing their apprehension regarding the use of AI for discriminatory or anticompetitive purposes and outlining their plans for regulation. This comes on the heels of Elon Musk requesting a “pause” in AI development and meeting with

Continue Reading Regulation of AI – the Path Ahead

This article was originally published on Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill blog.

If there is anything movies like The Terminator have shown us, it’s that AI systems might one day become self-aware and wreak havoc. But until Skynet becomes self-aware, let’s enjoy the AI toy that is quickly becoming a part of our daily lives.  Some Samsung employees recently discovered that playing with AI models like ChatGPT may have unexpected consequences. These employees used ChatGPT for work and shared sensitive data, such as source code and meeting minutes. This incident was labeled as a “data leak” due to fears that ChatGPT would disclose the data to the public once it is trained on the data.  In response, many companies took action, such as banning or restricting access, or creating ChatGPT data disclosure policies.Continue Reading Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?