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General Counsel Accused of Destroying Evidence

A Houston-based pharmacy is accusing its former general counsel of destroying evidence in furtherance of a conspiracy to steal trade secrets. The lawyer allegedly drilled holes in his Seagate external drive and discarded the remains.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Kelly Hart Secures $27M Trade Secrets Misappropriation Final Judgment in Fort Worth Trial

A Tarrant County district court judge entered final judgment for over $27 million in a GPS technology trade secrets misappropriation case.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A Trade Secret Win at the ITC for Viking Over Promising Potential Liver Drug

Eric Dittmann and Kecia Reynolds of Paul Hastings helped client Viking Therapeutics Inc. secure a seven-year exclusion order from an administrative law judge at the ITC against Ascletis—a rival also developing a potential treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
11 minute read

The Recorder

California Federal Court Grants CoStar Group's Motion to Narrow Claims in Move Inc. Trade Secrets Case

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu granted the defense's motion to dismiss claims alleging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act with leave to amend in a ruling published Oct. 29.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Quinn Emanuel Secures $16M Verdict Against Bell Helicopter

Bell allegedly shared the technology with Aeronautics Corporation of America, which manufactured its own units and sold them back to Bell and a substantially lower cost, Rogerson Aircraft co-lead counsel Karl Stern argued.
4 minute read

Law.com

Former Jury Researcher Accused of Stealing Legal Service Provider's Trade Secrets, Clients

"The threat to Jury-X is no longer theoretical—defendants' use of Jury-X's trade secrets has resulted in direct loss of Jury-X's clients. Clients choosing Tandem, when they have historically used Jury-X, shows the similarities in both company's services," according to the trade secrets lawsuit filed by the plaintiff's attorneys with Fox Rothschild.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A $604.9M Trade Secrets Verdict With a Big Assist From a Juror Question

Michael Ng and Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim represented renewable fuels company Propel against Phillips 66 Co. alongside colleagues in a month-long trial in California state court. Ng argued at closings that a juror question elicited a "confession" from a Phillips executive admitting to liability and trade secret misappropriation.
9 minute read

Law.com

Examining the Extraterritoriality of the DTSA

Can a company's trade secrets misused abroad give recourse on the extraterritoriality of the Defend Trade Secrets Act? Yes, said the 7th Circuit in an important new case in which a claim under the DTSA was asserted.
10 minute read

The Recorder

'Blatant and Audacious': Sideman & Bancroft Wins Injunction for Biotech Startup Trilobio in Trade Secrets Theft Case

The San Francisco-based company uses AI-fueled technology to create robots that perform biological research and development tasks and conduct genetic testing.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$604.9M Verdict Returned in Low-Carbon Fuels Trade Secrets Trial

A key event at trial was a response to a juror's question, Michael Ng said, where the Phillips 66 executive charged with implementing the company's new fuels business inadvertently confessed to the use of proprietary marketing data.
5 minute read

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