Got Trade Secrets? New Case Highlights Options in Pursuing People Who Steal Them

When an employee with access to a company’s trade secrets leaves to work for a competitor, the employer inevitably wonders what they may have taken with them on their way out the door. Fortunately, the answer is usually “nothing.” Occasionally, however, employees take information they believe will help them in their new jobs. Still worse are those nightmare scenarios in which employees take information to benefit their new employers.