In the wake of legislation strengthening U.S. federal trade secret statutes and a recent National Intelligence Estimate sounding the alarm on the economic costs of cyber-espionage, the White House in February 2013 released a new “Administration Strategy to Mitigate the Theft of Trade Secrets.” The report, produced by the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, represents a new push to develop effective, coordinated public policy responses to the misappropriation of trade secrets.
