Have a trade secret? Don’t disclose any part of it.

Written By dan terzian

A recent stub opinion out of the Ninth Circuit—Prostar Wireless Group, LLC v. Domino’s Pizza, Inc.—confirms the obvious. If you have a trade secret, don’t share any part of it with anybody.

Say you’re claiming a trade secret over software architecture. The more parts of that architecture you share with the public, the harder it is to prove that the the architecture as a whole is a trade secret.

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Not that much protection is needed for trade secrets claims to survive summary judgment, perhaps