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Connor Villar is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Patents Group.

Connor earned his J.D. from Tulane University Law school, Magna Cum Laude, and his B.Eng. from SUNY Maritime College, Cum Laude. While at law school, Connor served as a Judicial Extern to Judge James L. Dennis of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, as a Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review, and successfully sat for the United States Patent and Trademark Registration Exam.

Taking legal action to protect a trade secret is unlike other intellectual property litigation since what you’re trying to protect is a secret. Plaintiffs must navigate a fine line between pleading their complaint with enough specificity to put the Defendant on notice of what they allegedly misappropriated, but not too much to diminish the value of the secret. Several recent decisions indicate how to strike this balance.