Following Up on "Trade Secrets Litigation: Allstate Posts Documents Online"

Womble Trade Secrets Blog posted about Allstate's putting alleged trade secrets up on the Net. Its Good Hands Trade Secrets: Allstate Releases Data on How it Sets Rates from April 8 has two points not included in my Trade Secrets Litigation: Allstate Posts Documents Online:

Allstate said Monday that it didn't post the documents in response to Friday's court ruling, noting that it could not have created a site with 150,000 pages that quickly.

"We think the documents do merit protection and what we did to protect them was justified, but at some point you have to look to the threat of the brand," spokesman Rich Halberg said. "Critics were using bits and snippets of documents to create an inaccurate picture of claims."