The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which hears federal appeals from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, recently issued a decision clarifying the level of specificity required to claim ...

The Federal Circuit’s decision in Coda v. Goodyear underscores that trade secret plaintiffs must define their trade secrets with particularity before trial. Patent disclosures may inadvertently ...

November 24, 2025 - Zunum Aero, Inc. v. The Boeing Company, et al., no. 24-5751 (9th Cir. 2025) illustrates the key role technical experts can play in elucidating trade secret claims. The question on ...

Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and ...

“The identification of trade secrets with ‘reasonable particularity’ is emerging as a critical threshold requirement for DTSA claims.” Whether the plaintiff has adequately identified the trade secrets ...

A former Google employee accused of stealing trade secrets related to the company’s Pixel phones was indicted Thursday, adding to cases highlighting the security threats companies face in an era of ...

Pete is managing shareholder of the firm’s Chicago office. He counsels employers on a wide variety of workplace challenges, including protecting trade secrets and other valuable information and ...