Motorola Solutions v. Hytera Communications

More Thoughts on the Seventh Circuit’s Motorola Decision

Like Tim Holbrook, we found the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd. provocative.  Motorola expands the reach of the Defend Trade Secrecy Act (DTSA) in ways that strike us as inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s concerns about extraterritorial application of U.S. law, particularly in the context of intellectual property…

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Seventh Circuit Explores Copyright and Trade Secret Extraterritoriality

In Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd., the Seventh Circuit  recently addressed the extraterritorial reach of two federal intellectual property statutes, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and the Copyright Act.  The court held that the DTSA does apply extraterritorially and allowed recovery on that basis. The court, however, rejected the recovery of…

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Vanderbilt Law School
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George Washington University Law School
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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Duke University School of Law
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University of Cambridge
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Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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University of Hawai'i, William S. Richardson School of Law.
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Cornell Law School
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Bluestone Law
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Vanderbilt Law School
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NYU School of Law
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New York University School of Law
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Emory University School of Law
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