LSAT 126, Section 2, RC Passage 1, Trade Secrets

RC Passage 1 Explanation

PASSAGE TEXT: Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work …

Paragraph Summaries

1. Employees moving to competitors create a conflict between protecting company secrets and allowing workers to find new jobs. Courts try to protect both by allowing new employment but banning the sharing of secrets.
2. Workers cannot completely separate their knowledge from what they learned at past jobs. Companies can claim ownership over certain information created by employees while working for them.
3. Trade secrets are often transferred without the employee realizing it through decisions and skills at the new job. Courts have difficulty proving this kind of transfer, so injunctions mostly stop only the sharing of documents or obvious secrets.

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