Month: August 2013

Trade Secrets Watch Profiled in Page-One Article on Law Firm Blogs

Thanks to you, readers, less than three months after its launch, Trade Secrets Watch drew the notice of California’s leading legal weekly.  The Recorder put us on Page One as an exemplar of the growing trend of law firm-written blogs that take an engaging but journalistically serious approach to legal issues.  You can see a web version of the article here.  We’ve also copied it below: READ MORE

GERMAN TRANSLATION: Making Sense of Germany’s Criminal and Civil Trade Secret Laws

Germans are famous for their love of order.  But German trade secret law is untidy.  Like many EU countries and like the United States, Germany has no national trade secret law per se.  Its criminal and civil laws provide for broad trade secret protection — if you know how to navigate them.

A quick primer on Germany’s trade secret laws is available here.