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Corporate Counsel

New Data on Trade Secrets Cases Can Point the Way for General Counsel

Claimants, primarily companies, won about 71 percent of trade secret cases, and a majority of the defendants are former employees, according to new research from legal analytics research company Lex Machina.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Airline Broker Prevails on Claim of Trade Secrets Theft

A jury issues more than $133,000 in damages for the theft of a client list from a company that sells flights on private jets.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Legal Rights in Sugar Valley: Cuban Software Copyrights

Americans who have traveled to Cuba, have seen a beautiful country with crumbling buildings, unreliable electrical power and hard-to-access internet.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recoverable Damages in Trade Secret and Unfair Competition Claims

Complex Litigation columnist Michael Hoenig writes: On May 3, New York's highest court issued a decision clarifying the state's common law on the extent of damages recoverable in cases asserting claims of misappropriated trade secrets, unfair competition and unjust enrichment. Though the holding is important enough on the merits for litigators to digest, there is also some “entertainment” value in seeing how the jurists marshal their arguments. The subject matter is not easy but it is quite relevant in today's litigious, technological world.
10 minute read

Texas Lawyer

McKool Smith Attorney Convinces Delaware Court that $10M Policy Covers Trade Secrets Case

A McKool Smith lawyer recently helped convince a Delaware Court that a $10 million insurance policy his hotel chain client purchased from National Union Fire Insurance Company should cover his defense costs of a trade secrets case—even though the policy excluded trade secrets claims.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Litigating Idea Misappropriation Claims Under New York Law

it behooves any good litigator to take great care to dissect the idea misappropriation elements in as much detail as possible to ensure her client the best likelihood of success.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Trade-Secret Case Plaintiffs May Not Count Defendants' Cost Savings as Damages

Judge Paul Feinman said that compensatory damages for plaintiffs in trade secret cases must be based on how much the plaintiffs lose, not on an infringer's avoided development costs.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Law Firms Must Be Proactive to Prevent Cyberattacks

In the past few years, major law firms, including Cravath Swaine & Moore and Weil Gotshal & Manges, were victims of cyberattacks. In addition, more than 11.5 million files from Mossack Fonseca, the world's fourth largest offshore law firm, were stolen because the firm failed to take the necessary steps to protect its confidential data, including updating the security of its web servers.
9 minute read

International Edition

How Lawyers Used CFIUS Review to Defeat Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm

The White House blocked Broadcom's $117 billion bid to take over Qualcomm by issuing an executive order in March, citing national security concerns. Could it be the "poison pill" of the future?
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Blockchain Technology—Patent Eligible Subject Matter or Just a Business Model?

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin have become household terms. Bitcoin's unprecedented run to $20,000 (and back down again), along with similarly impressive gains by other cryptocurrency, has created a horde of so called crypto-millionaires.
8 minute read

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