With the enactment of new civil trade secret laws in the United States and the European Union, K&L Gates trade secret litigation lawyers and the Trans-Atlantic Business Counsel released an analysis highlighting the similarities and differences between the United States Defend Trade Secrets Act (“US-DTSA”) and the EU’s Trade Secrets Directive (“EU-TSD”). For the first time, there is now a federal civil cause of action for the protection of trade secrets in the United States and a set of directives to harmonize trade-secret laws in the EU. What do these developments mean for companies doing business on both sides of the Atlantic?

Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, January 26, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. EST/5:00 p.m. Berlin. 

The  panel will address the following topics:

• Brief introduction explaining the importance of trade secrets.

• Overview of the US-DTSA and EU-TSD. 

• Key similarities and differences in the US-DTSA and EU-TSD. 

• Strategies in trade-secret litigation.

• What should an in-house counsel do now?