IP Law: Trade Secrets

Trade secret protection was traditionally a common law doctrine. The Restatement of Torts § 757 distilled a century of case law into a short set of principles in 1939. For the next four decades, courts routinely cited this Restatement as the leading source of trade secret law. The Restatement of Torts was eventually superseded by the Uniform Trade Secret Act. However, courts occasionally refer to the Restatement when interpreting their state versions of the UTSA. 

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