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November 1, 2011Texas Journal of Business Law
Volume 44, Issue 2 of the Texas Journal of Business Law
The entire issue, all in a single file.
November 1, 2011Randy Burton, Sam Johnson, Cara Burton
The Sound of Inevitability: the Doctrine of Inevitable Disclosure of Trade Secrets Comes to Texas
It happens all the time. A promising new employee joins a company, eager to beginand do well. The company, in its own procedural excitement, gets right down to business byincorporating the new employee into the workplace and fails to secure an agreement from theemployee not to compete with the company and not to disclose sensitive information. Thecompany trains the employee on its own unique procedures, teaches him the tricks of the trade,and shares sensitive client and product information. Eventually, the employee leaves. Withouta confidentiality agreement or covenant-not-to-compete, the question becomes to what extentare the employer’s rights and information protected when compared to the employee’s right toseek employment involving the skills he has acquired? Enter the Doctrine of Inevitable Disclosure.
March 20, 202509111900
Intellectual Property Basics
A short compendium of intellectual property law, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets
November 7, 2019Elisaveta Dolghih
Trade Secrets and Non-Competes: A Texas Sized Problem
The paper provides an overview of the Texas Uniform Trade Secret Act ("TUTSA") for non-specialists, recent legislative amendments to TUTSA, pattern jury charges for trade secret litigation, TUTSA business forms and other recent developments in trade secret law. The author also includes an employee termination return of property checklist, an employee handbook provision relating to confidentiality and trade secrets, a template termination letter and a template non-competition, non-solicitation and non-competition agreement.
March 14, 2019Elizabeth S. Miller
Drafting Limited Liability Company Agreements
It is often stated that one of the benefits of organizing an entity as a limited liability company is that this form of entity offers the owners and governing authority of the entity the flexibility to agree to provisions for the economic terms and governance that are more flexible than available with respect to a corporation. This is true, and indeed limited liability companies are sometimes used to create highly complex structures with multiple classes of ownership interests and highly customized provisions regarding management and governance of the entity, including complicated provisions for voting and management succession. However, given the large number of entities now being created as limited liability companies in Texas and other states, it is likely that many of these new entities are not entities with complex structures with multiple classes of ownership and complex bureaucracies for governance.The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss models for governing agreements for limited liability companies when a simple structure is needed.
November 10, 2017Joseph F. Cleveland, Jr., J. Heath Coffman, Jared D. Wilkinson
2017 Texas Trade Secrets Update
The first step in protecting a trade-secret is to identify the type of information that qualifies as a trade secret. Under TUTSA, information must meet two requirements in order for it to qualify as a trade secret: (1) it must be the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy; and (2) it must derive independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use.
December 31, 1969Newsletter Committee
Fall, 2014
Includes articles on: "Texas Supreme Court’s Recent Shareholder Oppression Opinions Reaffirm Primacy of Common Law Fiduciary Duties Under Gearhart" by Byron Egan and Michael L. Laussade; "Texas Pattern Jury Charge on Trade Secret Misappropriation Near Completion" by Joe Cleveland; "What Happened to TrueCrypt?" by Ron Chichester; and "Judicial CLE Committee Update: Helping Strengthen Texas" by Evan Young.
December 31, 1969Newsletter Committee
Fall, 2014
Includes articles on: "Texas Supreme Court’s Recent Shareholder Oppression Opinions Reaffirm Primacy of Common Law Fiduciary Duties Under Gearhart" by Byron Egan and Michael L. Laussade; "Texas Pattern Jury Charge on Trade Secret Misappropriation Near Completion" by Joe Cleveland; "What Happened to TrueCrypt?" by Ron Chichester; and "Judicial CLE Committee Update: Helping Strengthen Texas" by Evan Young.