The DTSA Should Add a Spark to Trade-Secret Enforcement (.PDF Download)

    June 22, 2016

    The best protection for products that can be reverse-engineered is, of course, a utility patent. However, for aspects of a product that are not readily discerned from the product, such as manufacturing techniques, as well as hardware and firmware, the best protection is often trade-secret protection. What’s the biggest threat to those trade secrets? Typically, it’s the employees who know them...

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