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Ex Parte Seizures Under The Dtsa And The Shift Of Ip Rights Enforcement, Yvette Joy Liebesman
Ex Parte Seizures Under The Dtsa And The Shift Of Ip Rights Enforcement, Yvette Joy Liebesman
The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review
The ex parte seizure provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act is another step in a long line of legislation that shifts the costs of private enforcement to the public, which already has a toehold in copyright and trademark law. The ex parte provision—which is not incorporated into any state trade secret law—relieves rights owners of two “burdens.” First, it relieves the trade secret owner of the burden of actually having to compete in the marketplace. Second, it relieves the trade secret owner of the burden of the costs associated with the discovery process of a lawsuit. The effect of …
Symposium Keynote: The Dtsa And The New Secrecy Ecology, Orly Lobel
Symposium Keynote: The Dtsa And The New Secrecy Ecology, Orly Lobel
The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), which passed in May 2016, amends the Economic Espionage Act (“EEA”), a 1996 federal statute that criminalizes trade secret misappropriation. The EEA has been amended several times in the past five years to increase penalties for violations and expand the available causes of action, the definition of a trade secret, and the types behaviors that are deemed illegal. The creation of a federal civil cause of action is a further expansion of the secrecy ecology, and the DTSA includes several provisions that broaden the reach of trade secrets and their protection. This article raises …
The Defend Trade Secrets Act Whistleblower Immunity Provision: A Legislative History, Peter Menell
The Defend Trade Secrets Act Whistleblower Immunity Provision: A Legislative History, Peter Menell
The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review
The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ("DTSA") was the product of a multi-year effort to federalize trade secret protection. In the final stages of drafting the DTSA, Senators Grassley and Leahy introduced an important new element: immunity "for whistleblowers who share confidential information in the course of reporting suspected illegal activity to law enforecement or when filing a lawsuit, provided they do so under seal." The meaning and scope of this provision are of vital importance to enforcing health, safety, civil rights, financial market, consumer, and environmental protections and deterring fraud against the government, shareholders, and the public. This …
A New Framework For Assessing Clinical Data Transparency Initiatives, Erika Lietzan
A New Framework For Assessing Clinical Data Transparency Initiatives, Erika Lietzan
Faculty Publications
Biopharmaceutical companies submit vast amounts of clinical data and analysis to support approval of their medicines, expecting the information to be kept confidential, as has been the practice of regulators around the world for decades. Over the last ten years, however, pressure has been mounting for regulators or industry to release this information. Legal scholars have generally taken the view that no relevant doctrines or bodies of law preclude the release of this material and that public policy considerations compel its release. This article argues that the scholarship to date has overlooked key considerations: the special issues presented by operation …