Lessons from a leading trade secrets litigator

Bryan Wilson spoke to IAM about the impact of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) on litigating in the U.S., strategic considerations when bringing a case, and where more guidance and consistency from courts would be welcomed.

“[The DTSA] provides for federal jurisdiction, whereas before the DTSA you had to have a separate basis for that jurisdiction,” Bryan said. “The other big thing that the DTSA did was to allow for an ex parte seizure process for misappropriated trade secret materials. I think when that's appropriate and invoked, it can be important, but it's very, very rare to have a case involving that.”

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