March 22, 2024 | less than a minute read

Mike Cicero Serves as Inaugural Guest Author for Tangibly, Inc.'s Online Newsletter

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Michael Cicero

Intellectual Property Attorney

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Michael Cicero

Intellectual Property Attorney

Tangibly, Inc., based in Bellevue, Washington with an office in Singapore, provides software platforms that assist organizations with identification and management of their trade secrets. Tangibly's website includes articles addressing trade secret and restrictive covenant law. Tangibly recently began featuring guest authors for its online newsletter, and Mike Cicero of Taylor English Duma LLP became Tangibly's first guest author.

Tangibly invited Mike to prepare an article for its newsletter, and Mike did so, covering a September 2023 decision by the Supreme Court of Georgia concerning important choice-of-law principles in restrictive covenant litigation conducted in Georgia courts. Mike was happy to serve as the inaugural author for this extension of Tangibly's online articles.

The link below provides access to Tangibly's publication of Mike's article.

If parties to a restrictive covenant agree to a choice of non-Georgia law in an employment or other agreement containing the covenant, they should be aware that if litigation over the covenant ensues in a Georgia court and the court can exercise personal jurisdiction over one of the parties as a party defendant, the court will apply Georgia law (namely, the GRCA) to assess enforceability of the restrictive covenant, irrespective of the choice-of-law provision.