Intellectual Property
May 20, 2026
Defend Trade Secrets Act turns 10: Has it delivered?
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Randall E. Kay
Partner
Jones Day
Phone: (858) 314-1139
Email: rekay@jonesday.com
Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
Randall works in the firm's Intellectual Property practice in San Diego. The views set forth herein are the personal views of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the law firm with which he is associated.
Andrea Jill Weiss Jeffries
Partner
Jones Day
Email: ajeffries@jonesday.com
Stanford Univ Law School; Stanford CA
Andrea is a partner in the IP Practice in the firm's Los Angeles office. She has handled formidable intellectual property disputes involving patents, trade secrets, and other forms of IP for more than 20 years.
President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act into law 10 years ago on May 11, 2016. The DTSA offered hope that trade secret litigation would become more uniform across the 50 states. Since then, thousands of trade secret misappropriation cases have been filed in the federal district courts. Has the DTSA met expectations? Are trade secret owners better off now than 10 years ago? This article looks at the DTSA on its 10th anniversary.
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