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Skilled in the Art: Parting Thoughts on a $30 Million AI Trade Secrets Verdict

Kirkland partners Adam Alper and Mike De Vries share a few insights on the trade secrets trial they just litigated for AI company LivePerson.
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The Recorder

LivePerson Wins $30M in Trade Secret Dispute Over AI Rules and Data

Jurors awarded $6.7 million in compensatory damages and $23.3 million in punitives. It's the third in-person jury trial win for Kirkland partners Adam Alper and Michael De Vries during the pandemic era.
3 minute read

The Recorder

How an AI Chat Platform Made Its Pitch for $100M in Trade Secret Damages

In closing arguments Tuesday, Kirkland & Ellis partner Michael De Vries told jurors that [24]7.ai was so brazen about its theft of competitor LivePerson's rules and data that it even referred internally to "the LivePerson rules." O'Melveny partner Darin Snyder argued there was nothing improper about that because LivePerson assigned all the IP generated on customer websites to its customers.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Stryker, Represented by Gibbons and Williams & Connolly, Lodges Trade Secrets Action Against Former Executive

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Law.com

Pedal to the Metal: U.S. ITC Announces New Procedure To Further Streamline §337 Investigations

Now, instead of being in trial nine to 10 months after the filing of a complaint, parties could be in trial in half that time on a discrete issue that ends the investigation entirely or dramatically tips the scale in one direction.
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Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Quinn Emanuel Duo Who Scored a $26.4M Trade Secret Win Against a Chinese Glass Company

Bill Burck and AJ Merton of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan won $8.8 million in damages for PPG Industries, Inc. and the maximum amount of exemplary damages allowed under trade secrets Pennsylvania law in a suit accusing a Chinese competitor of conspiring to pilfer a proprietary process for manufacturing a new type of commercial aircraft window.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

SDNY Clarifies the Scope of 'Misappropriation' Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act

This article examines Judge Jed Rakoff's analysis in 'Zurich American Life Insurance v. Nagel', which provides an important reminder that not all misconduct involving a trade secret qualifies as "misappropriation" under the DTSA.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Patents, Pending Patent Applications and Notice Letters

Regardless of your strategy to protect your intellectual property, the content and timing of notice letters are important issues to consider before giving notice to potential infringing competitors.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Would You Like a Jury Trial? Chat Companies Square Off Over Alleged Trade Secrets

Kirkland and O'Melveny are litigating the protectability of rules and data that AI machines use to keep customers engaged on e-commerce websites. The case is one of the first in-person civil jury trials in the Northern District of California in the last year.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The Competition Problem: How to Quickly Protect Intellectual Property for Consumer Products

Because of the speed of competition with consumer products, intellectual property assets need to be protected earlier in the product life cycle for maximum protection.
7 minute read

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