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The Recorder

Viasat Wins $49M Verdict Over Fiber Optic Technology

San Diego County jurors find that Acacia Communications failed to pay royalties but award only $1 on Viasat's trade secret claims.
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The Recorder

Using Anti-SLAPP Laws to Combat Trade Secret Claims: A Disappearing Mechanism?

While the anti-SLAPP laws in some states have not had significant impact, others offer a pathway to early dismissal.
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The Recorder

Trade Secret's Inherent Value Part 2: Trade Secret Reasonable Royalties

This article considers an area in which differing perspectives on the fundamental goal of trade secret damages may lead to differing damages methodologies: reasonable royalty damages.
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The Recorder

Trade Secret's Inherent Value, Part 1: Avoided Costs and Trade Secret Damages

Whether damages should be directed at calculating the value of a trade secret or at calculating tangible losses incurred by the plaintiff is a fundamental issue tackled in a recent appellate decision out of New York.
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New York Law Journal

TransPerfect Trade Secrets Lawsuit Slammed by Defendant as 'Farcical'

TransPerfect's suit stems from the leading translation-services firm's forced sale in 2017.
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The Recorder

Implications of 'FMI v. Argus Media Leader' on Trade Secret Law

The Supreme Court's decision in 'FMI v. Argus Media Leader' will have important implications for companies' disclosed information. In fact, it may render certain information that would otherwise qualify as a trade secret under the Defend Trade Secrets Act obtainable under FOIA and therefore “readily ascertainable through proper means.”
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The Recorder

Viasat, Acacia Face Off Over Fiber Optics

California's Viasat says it's owed more than $300 million for "theft" of its error correction technology, but Massachusetts' Acacia Communications says Viasat is simply misreading their license agreement.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Home Design Site Claims Facebook, Princeton Nabbed Data for 3-D Objects

UAB “PLANNER5D,” the private Lithuanian company behind the Planner 5D website, sued Facebook and Princeton over claims they took valuable data from more than 2,500 three-dimensional objects and 45,000 scenes vital to the development of computer vision technology.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Bartko, ASML Run Up the Trade Secret Score to $845 Million

Bankrupt defendant XTAL won't pay out much but has agreed to assign its IP assets to ASML and to stay out of its field of business for three years.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How to Build an Intellectual Property Portfolio on a Budget

The ever-increasing speed at which information travels over social media and the expanding volume of information available on the internet has helped and hindered small and start-up enterprises.
9 minute read

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