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Suit Accuses Uber Founders of Stealing $40 Billion Idea

Christopher Dolan says his client brought Uber CEO Travis Kalanick the concept of using mobile technology to link drivers and passengers.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Define Trade Secrets Before and During Litigation

In business as in life, it never hurts to be clear on what each party brings to a relationship and what those things are really worth. A series of decisions in Synygy v. ZS Associates highlight the critical importance of defining an enterprise's trade secret information when using that information to run the business as well as when a dispute breaks out and litigation ensues.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Boyds LP v. To, PICS Case No. 15-0721 (C.P. Philadelphia Jan. 14, 2015) Glazer, J. (5 pages).

Because plaintiff failed to show how the requested preliminary injunction would abate the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets where the information had been returned and greater injury would result from granting the injunction than denying it, plaintiff failed to satisfy its burden for injunctive relief. Plaintiff's petition for injunctive relief denied.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Noncompete Suits Rising as Job Market Rebounds

A stronger job market is prompting an uptick in suits by employers against workers who leave to join competitors, labor and employment lawyers said.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Ex-Apple Insider Switches Sides on Brink of Patent Trial

The first patent case handled by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria coincides with an interesting hire by plaintiff Unwired Planet.
6 minute read

Law.com

JPMorgan Claims Defectors Poaching Clients

JPMorgan Chase Bank has sued six former wealth managers who quit en masse to join competitor Morgan Stanley and are allegedly soliciting their $2 billion base of former clients to follow them.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Hybrid Intellectual Property Licenses Await High Court Approval

The owner of intellectual property often faces concerns about maximizing licensing revenues while addressing the restrictions of federal and state laws that create those rights. Because a given IP right may involve federal law, through patents, trademarks or copyrights, and state law, through associated trade secrets or confidential information, licensing of that IP mix often presents a challenge to maximize the IP owner's potential revenue generation.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Rynone Manufacturing Corp. v. HSB Stone Corp

1 minute read

Litigation Daily

Aleynikov Trial Ends With Split Verdict

The case began with Goldman Sachs' foray into high-frequency trading and was nearly derailed by a missing avocado.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

DuPont Finally Collects in Kevlar Secrets Case

McGuireWoods' Brian Riopelle must have known it would be a major undertaking when he signed on to a trade secrets case against Kolon Industries. But he couldn't have foreseen the scope of what followed: A $920 million verdict, a reversal, a criminal prosecution, and now a guilty plea and a settlement worth more than a quarter-billion dollars for his client DuPont Co.
3 minute read

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