The Defend Trade Secrets Act Whistleblower Immunity Provision: A Legislative History

Law and Innovation: Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Most research and policy on protecting innovation focus on patents. Yet, almost all technology managers report secrecy to be more important than patents. Here, I show theoretically that stronger secrecy laws could increase or reduce R&D. By reducing spillovers, secrecy laws might reduce or raise the return to R&D, depending on whether spillover and own R&D are complements or substitutes. By str...

Legislative history of title VIII of the Social Security Act.

led to the enactment of a new Introduction • Be a World War II veteran who title VIII of the Social Security served in the U.S. military at some On December 14, 1999, President Act, “Special Benefits for point from September 16, 1940, and Clinton signed the Foster Care IndepenCertain World War II through July 24, 1947, or who dence Act of 1999, Public Law 106-169. Veterans.” It describes the se...

Secrets of the Trade

President Obama has discovered first-hand how difficult wrangling the interests of a dozen nations can be. For six years, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been in negotiations and might prove to be Obama’s crowning foreign policy achievement. If the 12-nation Free Trade Agreement (FTA) passes, it will shape the future of economic development in the Asia-Pacific and cement the U.S. as the...

'I had to act': in conversation with a whistleblower.

The National Healthcare Quality Act : A Legislative

Charles Sabel William Simon Draft 4 The National Healthcare Quality Act: A Legislative Proposal The goal of healthcare is to heal. But the publication in 1999 of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Healthcare System, together with its follow-up report two years later, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, alerted the nation th...