Top 10 Trade Secret Developments of 2013: Part 1

The year 2013 brought significant developments in trade secret law, both in the U.S. and abroad. In an article published in Law360, Randy Kahnke, Kerry Bundy and Ryan Long of Faegre Baker Daniels outlined the top 10 trends that promise to shape developments in the years ahead. Analysis and takeaways related to each trend prepare in-house counsel and private practitioners to respond to these issues.

Part one of the two-part series outlined the first five trends: expanding federal power being brought to bear on trade secret law; Europe's progress toward a uniform framework for trade secret protection; the U.S. International Trade Commission's authority to protect U.S. companies from foreign acts of misappropriation; Taiwan's crackdown on trade secret misappropriation by foreign countries; and the continuing disagreement among U.S. courts regarding the Uniform Trade Secret Act's preemption of claims for misappropriation of confidential information that does not rise to the level of a trade secret.