The new Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) is designed to create a federal standard for trade secret protection – and includes remedies that permit federal judicial seizure of stolen trade secrets. DTSA fills an important gap in the statutory framework that employers have available to them to retrieve trade secrets stolen by departing employees, such as the CFAA (.pdf), the Economic Espionage Act and the patchwork of state trade secret laws (.pdf).
Here is what employment lawyers need to know and do now:
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