{"id":6490,"date":"2017-04-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2017-04-16T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:14:18","slug":"protecting-trade-secrets-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Before 1995, the protection of trade secrets was based on the common law as defined by the Restatement of Torts. Illinois has adopted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2239&amp;ChapterID=62\">Illinois Trade Secrets Act, 765 ILCS 1065\/1, et seq.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Trade Secrets Act is modeled on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act\">Uniform Trade Secrets Act<\/a>. There are many instances in which the Illinois Trade Secrets Act could be utilized.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/#more-6490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets. Before 1995, the protection of trade secrets was based on the common law as defined by the Restatement of Torts. Illinois has adopted the Illinois Trade Secrets Act, 765 ILCS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-litigation","category-trade-secret-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets. Before\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets. Before\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets. Before","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets. Before","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets","datePublished":"2017-04-17T10:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/"},"wordCount":818,"articleSection":["Business Litigation","Trade Secret Litigation"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/","name":"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-04-17T10:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"Trade secrets can be among the most valuable assets of any business. Laws in Illinois and on the federal level have long protected trade secrets. Before","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/protecting-trade-secrets-illinois\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Laws in Illinois and on Federal Level Protect Trade Secrets"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-1GG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}