Trade Secret Litigation
Legal disputes involving undisclosed technical information, design documents, supply chain details and other trade secrets. Unlike patents, trade secrets require no public registration, and rights holders may seek injunctions under trade secret protection law.
Timeline (last 90 days)
At the discovery stage of a trade secret case, as long as it "may reasonably lead to the discovery of admissible evidence," the scope of discovery is usually broader than trial evidence.
Private messages (such as texts, Signal, Slack records) have become increasingly important in trade secret cases in recent years, because executives tend to express their intentions more bluntly in informal communications, which may become key evidence proving "intent" or "bad faith."
The hardest link to prove in a trade secret case is that the defendant "used" or "disclosed" the plaintiff's confidential information.
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At the discovery stage of a trade secret case, as long as it "may reasonably lead to the discovery of admissible evidence," the scope of discovery is usually broader than trial evidence.
50%UnverifiedPrivate messages (such as texts, Signal, Slack records) have become increasingly important in trade secret cases in recent years, because executives tend to express their intentions more bluntly in informal communications, which may become key evidence proving "intent" or "bad faith."
50%UnverifiedThe hardest link to prove in a trade secret case is that the defendant "used" or "disclosed" the plaintiff's confidential information.
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