""That's a very powerful threat to make to a fledgling company or a startup," says David Levine, a law professor at Elon University. "I'm concerned that you could have demand letters going not just to competitors but to anyone else." Levine first made those arguments in an open letter to Congress when the bill was introduced last year, together with 30 other law professors. More recently, he paired with fellow legal scholar Sharon Sandeen for a law review article titled "Here come the Trade Secrets Trolls." "Like the existing problem of patent trolls," the article argues, "trade secret trolling has the potential to undermine the structure of trade secret law and create serious problems and costs for innovators across all industries.""
- Date Published:09/21/2015
- Original Publication:The Verge