Camilla Alexandra Hrdy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School

Associate Professor of Law

217 N. Fifth Street

Camden, NJ 08102

United States

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New Haven, CT

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1.

Beyond Trade Secrecy: Confidentiality Agreements That Act Like Noncompetes

133 Yale Law Journal 669 (2024)
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 15 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Christopher B. Seaman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Washington and Lee University - School of Law
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contract, employment, noncompete, confidentiality, NDA, innovation, trade secret, IP, empirical

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The General Knowledge, Skill, and Experience Paradox

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 60 , No. 8, 2019, p. 2409
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2023
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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trade secrets, employment, knowledge skill experience, employee mobility, non-competition contracts, intellectual property law

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Keeping ChatGPT a Trade Secret While Selling It Too

40 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 75 (2025), Rutgers Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 02 Jul 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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trade secrets, AI, ChatGPT, generative AI, intellectual property, patents, secrecy, contracts, noncompetes, non-compete agreements, confidentiality agreements, reverse engineering, anti-reverse engineering clauses, EULAs, Terms of Use

4.

Intellectual Property and the End of Work

Florida Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 303, 2019
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2019
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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Intellectual Property, Employment, Technological Unemployment, Patent Trade Secret, Externality

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Abandoning Trade Secrets

73 Stanford Law Review 1 (2021)
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2023
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Mark A. Lemley
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Stanford Law School
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Dissenting State Patent Regimes

IP Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 78-97, 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 May 2013 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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patents, state patents, federalism, dissenting by deciding

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The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction

Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, V. 47, p. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Daniel Harris Brean
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Independent
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patents, science fiction, Hugo Gernsback

8.

The Value in Secrecy

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 91, p. 557, 2022
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2023
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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trade secrets, independent economic value

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Trade Secrecy Meets Generative AI

"Disrupting AI" Symposium Issue of the Chicago Kent Law Review, Forthcoming 2025, Rutgers Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2025
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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trade secret law, generative AI, improper means, AI inventors, patent law, copyright law, trade secret management, ChatGPT

10.

Enabling Science Fiction

Michigan Technology Law Review, Science Fiction and the Law Symposium Issue, Vol. 27, Forthcoming 2021
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2021
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Daniel Harris Brean
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Independent
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State Patents as a Solution to Underinvestment in Innovation

62 U. Kan. L. Rev. 101 (2014)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2015
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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patents, federalism, innovation, preemption, intellectual property, incentives, Bonito

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The Trade Secrecy Standard for Patent Prior Art

American University Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 4, p. 1269 , 2021
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Sharon K. Sandeen
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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patents, trade secrets, prior art

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Patent Nationally, Innovate Locally

31 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1301 (2017)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 08 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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The Reemergence of State Anti-Patent Law

University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 89, 2017, p. 101
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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Fast Secrets: Trade Secrets in Fashion

Oxford University Press (Eds. Irene Calboli and Eleonora Rosati, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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State Patent Laws in the Age of Laissez-Faire

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 28, 2013, pp. 45 - 114
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2014
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
Downloads 150 (416,382)
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17.

Cluster Competition

Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 20, p. 981, 2016
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2017
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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Claim Construction or Statutory Construction?

124 Yale Law Journal Forum 208 (2014)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Ben Picozzi
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Independent
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Commercialization Awards

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2015, p. 13
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 28 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2015
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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The AIA Is Not a Taking: A Response to Dolin & Manta

72 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 472 (2016)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 May 2016 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2016
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Ben Picozzi
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Independent
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Getting Patent Preemption Right

Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Feb 2019
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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22.

Local Commercialization Incentives

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2024
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
Downloads 87 (621,735)
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commercialization, patents, awards, state, local, innovation, clusters, collective, action, federalism

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Innovation or Jobs? An Inconvenient Truth About Public Financing for ‘Innovation’

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Innovation, 3 J.L. & Innovation (May 2020, Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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The Trespass Fallacy's Limits

65 Fla. L. Rev. F. 42 (2014)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2016
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Ben Picozzi
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Independent
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Workplace "Acquisition" of Trade Secrets

Rutgers Law School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2025
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Charles Graves
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and UC College of the Law
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trade secrets, improper acquisition

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Should Dissimilar Uses of Trade Secrets Be Actionable

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online Vol. 167: 78, 2019
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2020
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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trade secrets, intellectual property law

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Erie, Remedies, and Trade Secrets

Akron Law Review, ConLawNOW, Vol. 52, No. 193, 2019
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Mar 2019
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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Confidentiality Agreements Can Act Like Noncompetes  

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2025
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Christopher B. Seaman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School and Washington and Lee University - School of Law
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trade secrets, noncompete agreements, noncompetes, non-competition agreements, confidentiality agreements, NDAs, nondisclosure agreements

29.

Independent Economic Value

ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (Eds. Torremans, Stamatoudi, Yu, Jütte, August 2025)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2025
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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trade secrets, trade secret, trade secret law, independent economic value, economic value, intellectual property, TRIPS, DTSA, UTSA, defend trade secrets act, commercial value, trade secrecy, secrecy