Books
Learning Patent Law: A Modular Approach to Intellectual Property, 1st ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2024. With E. Rowe.
Trade Secret Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2021. With E. Rowe.
Selected Intellectual Property, Internet, and Information Law Statutes, Regulations, and Treaties, 2021 ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2021. With E. Rowe.
Research Handbook on Information Law and Governance. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. Co-edited with C. Rademacher, A. Ohly.
Information Law, Governance, and Cybersecurity. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2019. With D. Levine.
Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer: A Transactions-based Guide to Intellectual Property Law, 4th ed. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, 2019. Co-edited with M. Maloney.
Trade Secret Law in a Nutshell, 2nd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2018. With E. Rowe.
Trade Secret Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2017. With E. Rowe.
Trade Secrecy and International Transactions: Law and Practice. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. With E. Rowe.
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Trade Secrets and Undisclosed Information. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2014. With E. Rowe.
Trade Secret Law in a Nutshell. St. Paul, MN: West, 2013. With E. Rowe.
Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer: A Transactions-Based Guide to Intellectual Property Law, 3rd ed. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association, Business Law Section, 2013. Co-edited with M. Maloney.
Cases and Materials on Trade Secret Law. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2012. With E. Rowe.
Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer: A Transactions-Based Guide to Intellectual Property Law, 2nd ed. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association, Business Law Section, 2009.
Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer: A Transactions-Based Guide to Intellectual Property Law. Chicago, Ill.: ABA Section of Business Law, 2007.
Book Chapters
Economic Growth Requires Idea Generators; The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2024. Ed. by B. Amani, C. Ncube, and M. Rimmer.
Through the Looking Glass: Trade Secret Harmonization as a Reflection of U.S. Law; The Harmonization and Protection of Trade Secrets in the EU: An Appraisal of the EU Directive. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2020. Ed. by J. Schovsbo, T. Minssen, and T. Riis.
Out of Thin Air: Trade Secrets, Cybersecurity and the Wrongful Acquisition Tort; Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2020. Ed. by T. Aplin.
Intellectual Property Issues in Probate and Estate Planning; Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer: A Transactions-based Guide to Intellectual Property Law, 4th ed. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, 2019. Ed. by S. Sandeen and M. Maloney.
Trade Secret Harmonization and the Search for Balance; The Internet and the Emerging Importance of New Forms of Intellectual Property. New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2016. Ed. by S. Frankel and D. Gervais.
Trade Secret Basics; Bankruptcy and Intellectual Property Deskbook: A Guide to IP, the Internet, and Bankruptcy Law. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2016. By W. Agin.
Trade Secrets and Climate Change: Uncovering Secret Solutions to the Problem of Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. With D. Levine. Ed. by J. Sarnoff.
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The Limits of Trade Secret Law: Article 39 of the TRIPS Agreement and the Uniform Trade Secrets Act on Which It Is Based; The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy: A Handbook of Contemporary Research. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012. Ed. by R. Dreyfuss and K. Strandburg.
The Third Party Problem: Assessing the Protection of Information Through Tort Law; Intellectual Property Protection of Fact-Based Works: Copyright and Its Alternatives. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009. Ed. by R. Brauneis.
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Cinderella of intellectual property law: trade secrets; Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2007. Ed. by P. Yu.
Articles
Comments of Opponent Concerning Vilhelm Schröder´s Doctoral Dissertation, ‘Trade Secrets in European Patent Litigation,’ Revised with Footnotes January 9, 2023, JFT 1/2023 s. 71–77.
New U.S. Law Authorizes Presidential Sanctions for Trade Secret Theft, 54 IIC – International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 347 (2023).
The Trade Secrecy Standard for Patent Prior Art, 70 American University Law Review 1269 (2021). With C. Hrdy.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
A Typology of Disclosure, 54 Akron Law Review 657 (2020).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Trade Secrets and the Right to Information: A Comparative Analysis of E.U. and U.S. Approaches to Freedom of Expression and Whistleblowing, 21 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, issue 3, 1 (2020). With U. Mylly.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
The Erie/Sears/Compco Squeeze: Erie’s Effects on Unfair Competition and Trade Secret Law, 52 Akron Law Review 423 (2018).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Out of Thin Air: Trade Secrets, Cybersecurity, and the Wrongful Acquisition Tort, 19 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 373 (2018).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Myth of Uniformity in IP Law, 24 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 277 (2017).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Toward a Federal Jurisprudence of Trade Secret Law, 32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 829 (2017). With C. Seaman.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Debating Employee Non-Competes and Trade Secrets, 33 Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal 438 (2017). With E. Rowe.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Implementing the EU Trade Secret Directive: A View from the United States, 39 European Intellectual Property Review, 2017.
Westlaw
The DTSA: The Litigator’s Full-Employments Act, 72 Washington and Lee Law Review Online 308 (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Here Come the Trade Secret Trolls, 71 Washington and Lee Law Review Online 230 (2015). With D. Levine.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Meatspace, the Internet, and the Cloud: How Changes in Document Storage and Transfer Can Affect IP Rights, 12 DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal 437 (2014).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Lost in the Cloud: Information Flows and the Implications of Cloud Computing for Trade Secret Protection, 19 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2014).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Professional Learning Communities and Collaborative Teams: Tools to Jump-Start the Learning Outcomes Assessment Process, 6 Northeastern University Law Journal 189 (2013).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Evolution of Trade Secret Law and Why Courts Commit Error When They Do Not Follow the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, 33 Hamline Law Review 493 (2010).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Identifying and Keeping the Genie in the Bottle: The Practical and Legal Realities of Trade Secrets in Bankruptcy Proceedings, 44 Gonzaga Law Review 81 (2008-2009).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Kewanee Revisited: Returning to First Principles of Intellectual Property Law to Determine the Issue of Federal Preemption, 12 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 299 (2008).
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Relative Privacy: What Privacy Advocates Can Learn from Trade Secret Law, 6 Michigan State Law Review 667 (2006).
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A Contract by Any Other Name is Still a Contract: Examining the Effectiveness of Trade Secret Clauses to Protect Databases, 45 IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology 119 (2005).
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Defenders of Small Business?: A Perspective on the Supreme Court’s Recent Trademark Jurisprudence, 30 William Mitchell Law Review 1705 (2004).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Sense and Nonsense of Web Site Terms of Use Agreements, 26 Hamline Law Review 499 (2003).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
In for A Calf Is Not Always in for A Cow: An Analysis of the Constitutional Right of Anonymity As Applied to Anonymous E-Commerce, 29 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 527 (2002).
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Preserving the Public Trust in State-Owned Intellectual Property: A Recommendation for Legislative Action, 32 McGeorge Law Review 385 (2001).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Conflicting Rights: Intellectual Property Litigation and the Privilege Against Self Incrimination, 3 Journal of Proprietary Rights 9 (1991).
Other Publications
Professors’ Letter in Opposition to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 (S. 1890, H.R. 3326). 2015.
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Professors’ Letter in Opposition to the “Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2014” (S. 2267) and the “Trade Secrets Protection Act of 2014 (H.R. 5233). 2014.
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Panel Discussion: The Cloud and Emerging Issues in Business and Intellectual Property Law, 12 DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal 471 (2014)
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Panel III: Trade Secrets and Other Avenues for Protection of Advanced Technology Research, 20 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 875 (2010).
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The Untold Story of Trade Secret Law, a Review of Trade Secrets by David W. Quinto and Stuart H. Singer [book review], 4 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 841 (2009).