Claimants, primarily companies, won about 71 percent of trade secrets cases, and a majority of the defendants are former employees, according to new research from legal analytics research company Lex Machina.

Owen Byrd, general counsel and “chief evangelist” at Menlo Park, California-based Lex Machina, said on Thursday the research can be vital to a general counsel’s decision-making.

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