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Texas Lawyer

Court Rules to Unseal Trade Secrets, Raising Questions in $740 Million Verdict

A Texas district court wrongly sealed exhibits post-trial in a $740 million trade secret case, despite those exhibits being pre-admitted with the court…
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insider Trading Policies and Training: Time for a Refresher? Part 3

Counsel should be on the lookout for potential changes to the rules governing the stock trading plans corporate executives routinely rely on to trade company stock, or 10b5-1 plans.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

US Judge Refuses to Reveal What Brought Chinese Professor's Fraud Case to NY

Bo Mao, 36, is accused of helping steal proprietary technology from a California startup to help Huawei, according to documents filed in Texas and New York federal courts.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insider Trading Policies and Training: Time for a Refresher? Part 2

The SEC twice issued cybersecurity guidance to public companies in 2018. The SEC used one of these pronouncements to opine on the need for insider trading policies to account for cyber-related incidents.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Ex-Autonomous Vehicle Engineer for Google and Uber Charged With Trade Secret Theft

Anthony Levandowski is accused of stealing thousands of files related to driverless car technology as he departed from Google. Levandowski asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in Google's trade secret dispute with Uber, which purchased the startup company he founded after his departure from Google.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Shout-Out: Covington Beats Back $1.4 Billion Trade Secret Claim Against Lilly

"We are very pleased that the tribunal acknowledged the innovative and independent work of Lilly scientists," said Covington partner Marney Cheek.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insider Trading Policies and Training: Time for a Refresher? Part 1

Companies are embracing remote work options to cultivate a more satisfied and productive workforce. However, a negative consequence is that employees routinely remove sensitive company documents from the secure confines of their offices and company databases.
7 minute read

The Recorder

High Court Expands Protection on 'Confidential' Information Under Exemption 4 of FOIA

On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court upended decades of lower court precedent to expand protection of “trade secrets and commercial or financial” information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Protecting Internet Inventions: Four Different Paths

Internet inventions come in four major categories, each with a different way of best protecting it.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Google Settles IP Case Over High-Altitude Balloons

Arizona-based Space Data had argued that Google's "Project Loon" rode on its trade secrets. Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled earlier this year that Space Data had just enough to get past summary judgment.
3 minute read

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