sel provided by Arizona attorneys. Wheth-
er advising an employer on the language
of employment contracts or confidentiality
policies, helping a trade-secret owner assess
potential misappropriation claims under the
AUTSA or the DTSA, or defending an em-
ployee in a misappropriation action brought
in federal court, knowledge of the key fea-
tures and provisions of the DTSA and how
they compare to the AUTSA will facilitate
the most thorough and up-to-date legal ad-
vice to clients.
DTSA Implications
for Arizona Practitioners
Although many of the DTSA’s provisions
are similar to those of the AUTSA, the
DTSA contains key distinctions that may
have a substantial impact on the legal coun-
endnotes
1. S. Rep. No. 114-220, at 2
(2016).
2. Executive Office of the President of the United States,
Administration Strategy on
Mitigating the Theft of U.S.
Trade Secrets 1 (2013).
3. Id. at 4-5, 12.
4. Epic Systems v. Tata Group,
No. 14-CV-748 (U.S. Dist.
Court, W.D. Wis., April 14,
2016).
5. Miller UK Ltd. v. Caterpillar
Inc., No. 10-03770 (U.S.
Dist. Court, N.D. Ill.).
6. Marc van Zadelhoff, The
Biggest Cybersecurity Threats
Are Inside Your Company,
HARV. BUS. REV., available at
https://hbr.org/2016/09/
the-biggest-cybersecurity-threats-are-inside-your-company.
7. Economic Espionage and
Trade Secret Theft: Are Our
Laws Adequate for Today’s
Threats? Before S. Comm. On
the Judiciary, 113th Cong.
(2014) at 15 (statement of
Douglas K. Norman, Eli
Lilly & Co.).
8. THE IP COMMISSION, THE
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION
ON THE THEFT OF AMERICAN
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY
11 (May 2013), available
at www.ipcommission.org/
report/IP_Comission_
Report_052213.pdf
9. CREATE.ORG AND PWC,
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TRADE
SECRET THEFT 3 (Feb. 2014).
10. 18 U.S.C. § 1836 et seq.
11. Uniform Trade Secrets Act
with 1985 Amendments,
www.uniformlaws.org/
shared/docs/trade% 20
secrets/utsa_final_85.pdf
(last visited Nov. 18, 2016).
12. Id. For more on the UTSA
and its Arizona analogue,
see Damian R. Meyer &
Meaghan Kramer, Trade
Secret Protections Clarified,
ARIZ. ATT’Y (April 2015) at
12.
13. A.R.S. § 44-301 et seq.
14. UTSA § 8.
15. S. Rep. No. 114-220, at 10
(2016); H. Rep. No. 114-
529, at 14 (2016).
16. 18 U.S.C. § 1836(b)( 2).
17. Id. § 1836(b)( 2)(A)(i).
18. Id. § 1836(b)( 2)(A)(ii).
19. Id.
20. Id. § 1836(b)( 2)(G).
21. Id. § 1833(b).
22. Id.
23. Id.
24. Id.
25. Id. § 1835(b).
