http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2010/01/07/licensor-sue-thy-own-for-thy-secrets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=licensor-sue-thy-own-for-thy-secrets Freshly Brewed Bio/Pharma Chat. Served Up Daily. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2010/01/07/licensor-sue-thy-own-for-thy-secrets/comment-page-1/#comment-70223 Jackie Hutter Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:30:42 +0000 http://www.patentbaristas.com/?p=2589#comment-70223 To complicate things, isn't whether the employee breached a duty not to disclose usually covered by the law of the state in which they are/were employed? That is, in my experience, employment agreements are a matter of state law, and these employment agreements will have the employee's obligations to maintain confidentiality in them. Yes, you can say it is a matter of Delaware law, but that may not be standard procedure in such agreements--or if it is the state's public policy may not allow that to occur: why would an employee be subject to a far-flung jurisdiction with respect to local employment matters? To complicate things, isn’t whether the employee breached a duty not to disclose usually covered by the law of the state in which they are/were employed? That is, in my experience, employment agreements are a matter of state law, and these employment agreements will have the employee’s obligations to maintain confidentiality in them. Yes, you can say it is a matter of Delaware law, but that may not be standard procedure in such agreements–or if it is the state’s public policy may not allow that to occur: why would an employee be subject to a far-flung jurisdiction with respect to local employment matters?

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