{"id":216,"date":"2018-11-29T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2020-09-24T03:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:46:05","slug":"have-the-courts-made-room-for-inevitability-under-the-defend-trade-secrets-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/have-the-courts-made-room-for-inevitability-under-the-defend-trade-secrets-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the Courts Made Room for Inevitability Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 29, 2018 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a> Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty and Kandis Kovalsky, Associate of Kang Haggerty, co-authored &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2018\/11\/29\/have-the-courts-made-room-for-inevitability-under-the-defend-trade-secrets-act\/\">Have the Courts Made Room for Inevitability Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), 18 U.S.C. Section 1836,\u00a0<em>et seq<\/em>., which was enacted on May 11, 2016, after a Senate vote of 87-0, is the first federal law to protect trade secrets. The rare unanimous vote was unsurprising given the stunning report by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property that outlined how theft of intellectual property costs U.S. businesses more than $300 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>The DTSA highlighted Congress\u2019 goal of aligning the federal law closely with the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), which has been adopted in some form in almost every state. Just as the Lanham Act, which coexists with state trademark law, the DTSA coexists with state trade secret law. As such, it is important to understand this interplay and what it is likely to look like going forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/have-the-courts-made-room-for-inevitability-under-the-defend-trade-secrets-act\/#more-216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 29, 2018 edition of The Legal Intelligencer Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty and Kandis Kovalsky, Associate of Kang Haggerty, co-authored &#8220;Have the Courts Made Room for Inevitability Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act?&#8221; The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), 18 U.S.C. 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