On March 16, 2026, Governor Maura Healey signed Executive Order No. 654, titled “To Secure Massachusetts’ Energy Future by Establishing an Energy Supply Plan that Drives […]
The concept of securing loans and mortgages with digital currency is not totally new. However, the State of New Hampshire’s Business Finance Authority (BFA) is taking […]
A recent Ninth Circuit decision highlights a continuing dispute among federal courts as to whether a plaintiff alleging trade secret misappropriation must disclose its trade secrets […]
Trade secret protection is fast becoming a go-to means for intellectual property protection for startups and established corporations alike. Protecting IP under trade secret law has […]
On August 4, 2025, Prince Lobel filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the government transparency non-profit MuckRock Foundation. The brief […]
In our last alert on the cross-border protection of trade secrets, available here, we discussed similarities and differences between the United States’ Defend Trade Secrets Act […]
About ten years ago the United States and the European Union passed sweeping trade secret legislation meant, in part, to harmonize protections available to companies for […]
The Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston opened the floodgates to billions of dollars of investments in the use of athletes’ […]
Background – Rule 506(c) General Solicitation The rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission provide exemptions from registration under federal securities laws, allowing companies to raise […]