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Litigation Daily

Chip Designer ASML Scores $223M Trade Secret Verdict

ASML accused rival Xtal of hiring executives and engineers and inducing them to bring computational lithography technology with them.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Have the Courts Made Room for Inevitability Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act?

The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), 18 U.S.C. Section 1836, et seq., which was enacted on May 11, 2016, after a Senate vote of 87-0, is the first federal law to protect trade secrets.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Should Companies Expect From US-China Talks During the G20 Summit?

Some observers think President Trump and China's Xi Jinping could reach at least a tentative agreement to ease trade tensions. Others aren't as optimistic. “In the end, it's up to Trump and nobody knows how he's going to play this,” one source said. “If I were a company I wouldn't be making any bets on this thing at this point.”
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: It's No Secret That Kirkland Trio Crushed This Case

More than big money was at stake. James Hurst, Patricia Carson and Diana Watral were determined to protect the "stellar reputations" of their clients, who were accused of being spies and cheats.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Quicken Affiliate Says It's Blowing Whistle on $740 Million Verdict

Demanding a new trial, Amrock and Gibson Dunn say three former executives of HouseCanary have shed light on 'egregious fraud' in a trade secrets case. HouseCanary calls it a 'sideshow.'
6 minute read

The Recorder

Seeing More Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions Involving China? Here's Why

Arent Fox's Dana Finberg called recent developments 'a sign that the DOJ is going to take matters into its own hands more, rather than try to get cooperation from the Chinese authorities.'
6 minute read

International Edition

U.S. Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions Target China and Are on the Rise

'It's the first time you have an initiative within the DOJ focused on a particular country.'
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Why Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions vs. China Are Trending: Lawyers Explain

As U.S. and China trade tensions escalate, the U.S. Department of Justice has been prosecuting trade misappropriation cases more often. “I imagine that some of these cases have been worked on for years now and there was a policy judgment in the Trump administration that we would start prosecuting these cases,” said a trade lawyer and former DOJ prosecutor.
6 minute read

The Recorder

DOJ Charges Chinese State Company With Conspiring to Steal DRAM Trade Secrets from Micron Company

The case marks the second high-profile trade secrets prosecution from the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of California to surface this week.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Genentech Takes Aim at Rival as Feds Charge Former Employees With Trade Secret Theft

Three former Genentech employees have been indicted for funneling trade secrets to biosimilar rival JHL Biotech. In a civil suit, Genentech is suing the employees, JHL, and its founders, who are both former Genentech employees themselves.
4 minute read

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