The AIPLA Trade Secret Summit is the leading trade secret conference in the nation, with speakers from across the spectrum of private practitioners, in-house counsel, government, and academia, as well as fantastic networking opportunities. CLE credits will be available and topics this year are expected to include:

• Expert Advice: Practical tips for working with experts in a trade secret case.
• Federal Involvement and Enforcement: Biden’s Executive Order and other federal government regulation and enforcement. 
• What’s New in Noncompetes and Trade Secrets?: State law updates to noncompete and trade secrets law (including CA).
• Advanced Trade Secrets Topics (Part 1):  Defining “ownership” of a trade secret or non-patented inventions, including discussion of BioRad-Labs, Inc. v. 10 Genomics Inc., 967 F. 3d 1352 (2020); distinguishing between “confidential information” and “trade secrets.”
• Advanced Trade Secrets Topics (Part 2): Sufficiently identifying trade secrets in litigation update.
• Protecting Trade Secrets in a post-COVID-19 World: Trends, traps, and other hot topics for protecting trade secrets in the remote work environment.
• Don’t Mess with Texas Trade Secrets: Primer on Texas trade secrets and noncompete law plus protecting trade secrets in the oil, gas, and energy industries.
• Trade Secrets and Noncompetes For Lawyers: Lawyers can misappropriate trade secrets and breach noncompetes, too. Ethics Credit! 

To view the agenda and all available sessions of the day, click here.

Wilson Sonsini partner Amy Candido will be speaking on Day 2 on the ‘Advanced Trade Secrets Topics (Part 1)’ panel at 9:00 a.m. Central.