CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. October 27, 2023 - The ex parte seizure order, codified under Section 1836(b)(2) of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ...

Leke Kehinde, in this article, examines among others, the propriety of the freezing of some companies’ accounts by the Federal High Court (FHC) pursuant to ex-parte motions for interim injunctions by ...

Following up on our recent blog on trade secrets damages, here we look at the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)’s provision of injunctive relief. Specifically, the DTSA allows trade secret plaintiffs to ...

The web is a rich, varied, yet essentially untapped data source. Are you making full use of it in your eDiscovery? People today live their lives in full view on the web, from social media and ...

“Netlist added that the requestor’s anonymity… weighed further in favor of denial because it foreclosed any application of estoppel.” Although U.S. Patent Application No. 20080256282 (“Guo”) was not ...

“Parties seeking the extraordinary remedy of an ex parte seizure order should emphasize whether, for example, the defendant has a high level of computer proficiency and that such a defendant may find ...

Copying the other side does not relieve the misconduct of ex parte contact. I am a practicing trial lawyer and I constantly see my opponents write letters to the judge assigned to the case raising ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out an ex parte application filed by the convicted leader of the proscribed ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has had cause to sanction judges who did not exercise proper discretion in granting ex-parte orders, which are made without waiting for a response from the other ...

February 1, 2022 - On Oct. 11, 1996, President Clinton signed the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (EEA) into law: "Trade secrets are an integral part of virtually every sector of our economy and are ...

The killing of the Kentucky woman Breonna Taylor in the execution of a search warrant has triggered a call for reform of search warrant procedures. Most of the focus for reform has currently centered ...