Common use of Immunity under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 Clause in Contracts

Immunity under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016. The federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 provides immunity to Employee in certain circumstances for limited disclosure of Jacobs’ trade secrets: a. in confidence, either directly or indirectly to a federal, state or local government official, or to an attorney, “solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law,” or b. “in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.” Additionally, if Employee files a retaliation lawsuit for reporting a suspected violation of law he may also use and disclose related trade secrets in the following manner: c. Employee may disclose the trade secret to his attorney, and d. Employee may use the information in related court proceedings, as long as Employee files documents containing the trade secret under seal, and does not otherwise disclose the trade secret “except pursuant to court order.”

Immunity under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016. The federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 provides immunity to Employee in certain circumstances for limited disclosure of Jacobs’ trade secrets: a. (i) in confidence, either directly or indirectly to a federal, state or local government official, or to an attorney, “solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law,” or b. (ii) “in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.” Additionally, if Employee files a retaliation lawsuit for reporting a suspected violation of law he he/she may also use and disclose related trade secrets in the following manner: c. (i) Employee may disclose the trade secret to his his/her attorney, and d. (ii) Employee may use the information in related court proceedings, as long as Employee files documents containing the trade secret under seal, and does not otherwise disclose the trade secret “except pursuant to court order.”

Immunity under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016. The federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 provides immunity to Employee in certain circumstances for limited disclosure of Jacobs’ trade secrets: a. in confidence, either directly or indirectly to a federal, state or local government official, or to an attorney, “solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law,” or b. “in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.” Additionally, if Employee files a retaliation lawsuit for reporting a suspected violation of law he Employee may also use and disclose related trade secrets in the following manner: c. Employee may disclose the trade secret to his Employee’s attorney, and d. Employee may use the information in related court proceedings, as long as Employee files documents containing the trade secret under seal, seal and does not otherwise disclose the trade secret “except pursuant to court order.”