Trade Secrets Litigation: The No-Longer-Forgotten Part of the Tech IP Arsenal

<b><i>With Massive Jury Rewards and the DTSA Encouraging Federal Litigation, Trade Secrets Litigation Is Seeing a Surge in the Tech Industry</b></i><p>These days, many of the big IP litigation battles involving companies like Facebook, Uber, and Epic, have nothing to do with patents, trademarks or copyrights at all. Instead, it's all about the perhaps forgotten part of IP: trade secrets.

21 minute read October 02, 2017 at 12:02 AM
By
Zach Warren
Trade Secrets Litigation: The No-Longer-Forgotten Part of the Tech IP Arsenal

Intellectual property battles in technology are nothing new, but their nature might be shifting. These days, many of the big IP litigation battles involving companies such as Facebook (Zenimax Media Inc., et al v.

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