Intellectual Property
Apr. 27, 2017
One year on: the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act
As the DTSA celebrates its first birthday, answers to lurking questions about jurisdiction and ex parte seizures begin to emerge.





Matthew M. Werdegar
partner
Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
633 Battery St
San Francisco , CA 94111
Phone: (415) 676-2248
Fax: (415) 397-7188
Email: mwerdegar@keker.com
Stanford Univ Law School
Matthew Werdegar is a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters in San Francisco, whose practice focuses on litigating and trying complex patent and trade secret disputes. He may be reached at (415) 676-2248 or mwerdegar@keker.com

Warren A. Braunig
Partner
Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
commercial and intellectual property litigation
633 Battery St
San Francisco , CA 94111
Phone: (415) 773-6642
Email: wbraunig@keker.com
New York Univ School of Law
The Defend Trade Secrets Act celebrates its first anniversary on May 11. When the DTSA went into effect this time last year, many questions were raised about how it would be applied and what its impact on trade secret litigation would be. With a year of jurisprudence now on the books, answers to some of those questions are emerging.
Post-Effective Date conduct Required to Trigger DTSA Jurisdiction
One of the most hotly litigated issues under the DTSA so far has been whe...
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