<br />
Ipls Proceedings<br />
State Bar of Michigan<br />
Volume 27 • Issue 2 • 2016<br />
In ThIs Issue<br />
“Defend Trade Secrets Act”<br />
Signed Into Law Effective<br />
May 11, 2016 ............................... 1<br />
View from the Chair ........................... 2<br />
Enfish and TLI: A Study of the<br />
CAFC’s Recent Section 101<br />
Opinions ....................................... 5<br />
The Defend Trade Secrets Act:<br />
Some Practical Considerations....8<br />
Five Things to Know About the<br />
Defend Trade Secrets Act .......... 12<br />
“Defend Trade Secrets Act” Signed<br />
Into Law Effective May 11, 2016<br />
By John M. Halan, Shareholder, Brooks Kushman PC<br />
The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”), was signed into law by Presi-<br />
dent Obama on May 11, 2016. The new statute creates broad private federal cause of<br />
action for t<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=1"> Ipls Proceedings State Bar of Mi</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=2"> View from the Chair It is my great honor</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=3"> Defend Trade Secrets Act ... Continued from page </a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=4"> Further, because decisions under DTSA will be mad</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=5"> Enfish and TLI: A Study of the CAFC’s Recent Sect</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=6"> (Id. at 7.) According to the asserted patents</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=7"> 9-10.) For all these reasons, the claims of the ’</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=8"> have been found subject matter eligible. As such,</a>
<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=9"> What’s New Employers Should Update </a>
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<a title="IP_Proceedings_Vol. 27 No. 2 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9492b4aa?page=12"> 23 Section 2019.210 applies “[i]n any action all</a>
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