The 2021 Sedona Conference on Developing Guidelines for Trade Secret Issues

Date:

Monday, June 21, 2021 - 12:00pm to Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 4:30pm

This Conference will present for public dialogue for the first time several consensus, non-partisan publications from our Sedona Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets, consisting of:

WG12 Commentary on the Proper Identification of Asserted Trade Secrets in Misappropriation Lawsuits
WG12 Commentary on The Employee Life Cycle Relating to Trade Secrets
WG12 Commentary on Equitable Remedies in Trade Secret Litigation
WG12 Commentary on Protecting Trade Secrets in Litigation About Them
WG12 Commentary on Trade Secret Issues Across International Borders: Extraterritorial Reach
WG10/12 Joint Commentary on Cross-Border Discovery in Patent Litigation and Trade Secret Litigation

The Conference will further convene a panel discussing additional current/future trends in trade secret law and litigation, some of which may well develop into our next set of Sedona WG12 commentary drafting team efforts, for which we plan on putting out a call for volunteers leading up to or shortly after the Conference. And we will close the Conference with a Judicial Roundtable, comprising some of our Judicial Advisors who have graciously and generously participated in our WG12 efforts to date.

Co-Chairs

Victoria Cundiff

Paul Hastings (ret.)

New York, NY, USA

Nicole D. Galli

ND Galli Law LLC

Philadelphia, PA, USA

James Pooley

James Pooley PLC

Menlo Park, CA, USA

Faculty

David Almeling O'Melveny & Myers LLP San Francisco, CA, USA	John P. Barry Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP New York, NY	Jennifer A. L. Battle Carpenter Lipps LLP Columbus, OH, USA	Russell Beck Beck Reed Riden LLP Boston, MA, USA
Hon. Laurel Beeler U.S. District Court, Northern District of California San Francisco, CA, USA	Hon. Cathy Bissoon U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, PA, USA	David Bohrer NexTracker LLC San Jose, CA, USA	John Bone Stout Chicago, IL, USA
Hon. Hildy Bowbeer (ret.) St. Paul, MN, USA	G. Brian Busey Morrison & Foerster Washington, DC, USA	Amy Candido Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC San Francisco, CA, USA	Monte Cooper Goodwin Procter LLP Redwood City, CA, USA
Charles Duncan Robert Bosch, LLC Farmington Hills, MI, USA	Rebecca Edelson Sheppard Mullin Los Angeles, CA, USA	Cassius A. Elston Aon IP Solutions Redmond, WA, USA	Hon. James L. Gale North Carolina Business Court Greensboro, NC, USA
Christopher Gerardi Charles River Associates Washington, DC, USA	Seth Gerber Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Los Angeles, CA, USA	Charles "Tait" Graves Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati San Francisco, CA, USA	R. Mark Halligan FisherBroyles, LLP Chicago, IL, USA
Dean Harts 3M 3M Saint Paul, MN, USA	Dina Hayes Arnold & Porter Chicago, IL, USA	Randall E. Kahnke Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Minneapolis, MN, USA	Randy Kay Jones Day San Diego, CA, USA
Steven M. Kayman Rottenberg Lipman Rich, PC New York, NY, USA	Mark Klapow Crowell & Moring LLP Washington, DC, USA	John Marsh Bailey Cavalieri LLC Columbus, OH, USA	Elizabeth McBride Applied Materials Inc Santa Clara, CA, USA
Jennifer Lynn Miller Renmatix, Inc. King of Prussia, PA, USA	Robert Milligan Seyfarth Shaw LLP Los Angeles, CA, USA	Patrick J. O'Toole Jr. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Boston, MA, USA	Eric Ostroff Meland Budwick, P.A. Miami, FL, USA
Jeffrey A. Pade Paul Hastings LLP Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Donald F. Parsons Jr. (ret.) Retired Wilmington, DE, USA	Dean Pelletier Pelletier Law, LLC Chicago, IL, USA	Prof. Mark F. Schultz University of Akron School of Law Akron, OH, USA
Nikki Vo Meta Platforms San Francisco, CA, USA	Hon. Nina Wang U.S. District Court, District of Colorado Denver, CO, USA	Erik W. Weibust Epstein Becker & Green P.C. Boston, MA, USA	Hon. Christopher P. Yates Michigan Court of Appeals Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Agenda

Time	Session	Panelists
	Monday, June 21, 2021 (all times EDT)
12:00 — 12:10	Welcome and Introductions	Cundiff, Galli, Pooley, Weinlein
12:10 — 1:10	[Panel 1] The Identification of Trade Secrets in Misappropriation Lawsuits	Almeling, Graves*, Kayman, Klapow, O'Toole, Pelletier, Yates (J)

1:10 — 1:25	Break
1:25 — 2:50	[Panel 2] Tailoring Remedies to the Misappropriation: Equitable Relief, Damages, or Both	Battle, Bohrer, Bone, Candido, Cundiff*, Gale (J), Gerardi, Parsons (ret. (J)), Weibust

2:50 — 3:05	Break
3:05 — 4:30	[Panel 3] Trade Secret Issues Across International Borders	Busey, Cooper*, Gerber, Harts, Kay, Pade, Schultz, Vo, Wang (J)

4:30 — 5:15	Current and Future Trends?/Social Hour

Time	Session	Panelists
	Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (all times EDT)
12:00 — 12:05	Welcome and Introductions	Cundiff, Galli, Pooley, Weinlein
12:05 — 1:30	[Panel 4] Leveraging Internal Assets in the Governance and Management of Trade Secrets	Beck, Bowbeer (J), Edelson, Elston, Galli*, Marsh, McBride, Miller, Milligan

1:30 — 1:45	Break
1:45 — 2:45	[Panel 5] Inevitable Tension: Reconciling Public Court Access with Protecting Trade Secrets in Litigation	Barry, Bissoon (J), Duncan, Halligan, Hayes, Kahnke* Ostroff

2:45 — 3:00	Break
3:00 — 4:30	[Panel 6] Judicial Roundtable	Beeler (J), Bissoon (J), Bowbeer (J), Gale (J), Pooley*, Wang (J), Yates (J)

4:30 — 4:35	Closing Statements	Weinlein
*Panel Moderator

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