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US panel: Patent applications ‘protected’ under California anti-SLAPP law

By Melissa Ritti ( October 15, 2025, 21:25 GMT | Insight) -- California trade secret claims leveled in connection with a patent application were prematurely rejected by a California federal judge when the act of filing a patent application is “protected” under the state’s anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) statute. In so ruling on Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit broke new legal ground.In a question of first impression, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday invoked the collateral order doctrine to review, on an interlocutory basis, the denial of a motion to strike claims under the California Unfair Trade Secrets Act (CUTSA) leveled in connection with disclosures made in a series of patent applications....

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