Apr. 20, 2022
International trade secret litigation in the federal courts: extraterritoriality
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Randall E. Kay
Partner
Jones Day
Phone: (858) 314-1139
Email: rekay@jonesday.com
Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
Randall works in the firm's Intellectual Property practice in San Diego. The views set forth herein are the personal views of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the law firm with which he is associated.
Passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) did more than just provide a federal civil cause of action for misappropriation. The DTSA allows civil lawsuits against foreign actors who committed their theft of trade secrets entirely abroad. Federal courts can preside over cases of foreign misappropriation so long as an “act in furtherance” of the misappropriation occurred in the United States. Thus, wrongdoers stealing trade secrets in China and the United Arab Emi...
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