Early impressions of the Defend Trade Secrets Act

The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) was enacted on May 11, 2016 in the hope of smoothing differences in the US states’ separate implementation of trade secret laws under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), particularly in view of the ever-broadening scope of national and global commerce. Owing to the lack of retroactive effect of the DTSA, US district courts have so far issued only a handful of rulings addressing the law, and there have not yet been any decisions from the US appellate courts.