Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

This month, in Sysco Machinery Corp. v. DCS USA Corp., the Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a trade secret case, holding that plaintiffs asserting Defend Trade Secret Act (“DTSA”) claims must identify the misappropriated trade secrets with “sufficient particularity.”  The Court, in a published opinion, held that this heightened standard is necessary for trade secret claims “because it is the type of claim that has the potential to seriously disrupt ordinary business relationships.” 

Read Hunton’s full insight published here:  Fourth Circuit Says Trade Secrets Must Be Identified with “Sufficient Particularity”