How Uncle Sam can protect your trade secrets
01 March 2010
Until recently, IP owners had to sue trade secret thieves. Now the government can prosecute them. Michael Songer and Traci Rodriguez explain how
Many companies today face the conundrum of how to protect their intellectual property rights against the high costs associated with civil litigation. As a result, many have been more willing to explore the use of the criminal justice system to protect these rights. One criminal intellectual property statute that has been applied with more frequency over the past few years is the Economic Espionage Act (EEA). The EEA is, broadly speaking, the federal criminal companion to the various state civil trade secret statutes, making it a criminal offence to steal proprietary information....
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