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Is Your Twitter Account a Trade Secret?

By Weintraub Firm on Posted in Trade Secrets

As social media networks become part of the lives and daily routines of more and more people, the use of social media networks in the workplace has begun to highlight a number of issues where an employee’s use of a social media network may interfere with the rights of their employer. A recent case pending before… Continue Reading

Trade Secrets and Preemption

By Weintraub Firm on Posted in Trade Secrets

By James Kachmar Although several federal courts in California have previously considered the issue of preemption in trade secret misappropriation cases, the Sixth Appellate District, in K.C. Multimedia, Inc. v. Bank of America Technology & Operations, Inc. ___ Cal.Rptr. 3d ____ (6th Dist. Mar. 3, 2009), became one of the first (if not the first)… Continue Reading