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California Court Finds Obtaining Trade Secrets Through Reverse Engineering Permissible
A federal court in Los Angeles dismissed the plaintiff’s trade secrets claims in Aqua Connection Inc. v. Code Rebel, LLC [pdf], despite the fact that the plaintiff (Aqua Connect) alleged that its trade secrets were improperly obtained through reverse engineering in violation of a user agreement.
A California Federal Court Reinvigorates the Growing Tension over the Preemptive Scope of California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act
In the latest twist in the developing law regarding the preemptive scope of California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)1 a California federal court in Amron International Diving Supply, Inc. v. Hydrolinx Diving Communication, Inc.2 ("Amron") recently issued a decision reinvigorating the growing tension between courts addressing the issue of UTSA preemption – a tension that, unfortunately, is likely to continue into the foreseeable future.
