Anti-SLAPP Presentation Interrupts Trade Secrets Presentation

Just witnessed one of the more brilliant presentation tactics I’ve ever seen.  Paul Storm was just up talking about a case involving trade secrets, and as soon as he mentioned a particular party, his co-panelist Mike Karson stopped him, and took over the podium to begin explaining the effect that an Anti-SLAPP motion could have interrupting a case (as he did Paul’s presentation). Brilliant.  Just brilliant.

Preliminary injunctions & seizure under the DTSA

Today appears to be former employee day, topped off with the first seizure order I’ve seen under the still relatively new Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), which is what we used to call UTSA, or TUTSA or TTSA back when it was common law or Texas statutory law.  In this case, a former employee is alleged to have taken the company’s trade secrets.  Judge Mazzant authorized seizure of a laptop belonging to the company in the employee’s possession, but the laptop couldn’t be found, which set the stage for the injunction proceeding as well as additional excitement for the defendants’ electronic devices.