Friday, January 29, 2021
In several recent decisions, district courts have held that liability under the Defend Trade Secrets Act can extend to extraterritorial defendants. As set forth by Sheppard Mullin’s Tyler Baker in a prior blog post, the extraterritorial reach of the DTSA is rapidly expanding. Non-U.S. Companies and the DTSA: Parameters of a Developing Reality | Trade Secrets Law Blog (
citing
vPersonalize Inc. v. Magnetize Consultants Ltd., 437 F. Supp. 3d 860, 878 (W.D. Wash. 2020);
Micron Tech. Inc. v. United Microelectronics Corp., No. 17-cv-06932-MMC, 2019 WL 1959487 (N.D. Ca. May 2, 2019);
Motorola Solutions Inc. v. Hytera Commc’ns Corp., 436 F.Supp.3d 1150, 1165 (N.D. Ill. 2020);