Trade Secrets: The 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act creates federal court jurisdiction for theft of trade secrets

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, signed into law on May 11, 2016, creates federal court jurisdiction and additional remedies for the misappropriation of trade secrets, an area of law that had long been the domain of state courts except in diversity of citizenship cases.

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