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Perseverance Pays Off for Paul Hastings in DuPont Secrets Case

Paul Hastings still has a ways to go if it hopes to vindicate client Kolon Industries in its trade secrets battle with DuPont Co. But Kolon's big appellate win last week has clearly boosted the spirits of its defense lawyers.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Tech Firm Accuses HP of Stealing Trade Secrets

In a suit seeking $100 million, Massachusetts-based Mobile Monitor Technologies says the computer giant first stole its idea for a portable computer monitor—and then stole its customers.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Pressure Mounts to Disclose Fracking Chemicals

Wyoming leads the way, although regulators are allowing some protections for trade secrets.
8 minute read

Litigation Daily

Kolon Escapes $919 Million Verdict in Battle With DuPont

The Fourth Circuit reluctantly vacated DuPont's $919 million trade secrets win against Kolon Industries in a fight over Kevlar, handing a big win to appellate ace Paul Clement of Bancroft PLLC and cocounsel at Paul Hastings.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Trade-Secrets Case Against Patterson Belknap Survives

A misappropriation of trade secrets case against Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and a former associate has survived a motion to dismiss after the judge found the plaintiff stated a "plausible factual basis" to show the defendants "obtained the trade secrets by improper means."
5 minute read

Legaltech News

How To Protect Trade Secrets

Compromising the intellectual property at a start-up will risk investment dollars and possibly derail an acquisition.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Attorney Fees Awarded Under Pa. Uniform Trade Secrets Act

In May 2013, the Pennsylvania Superior Court analyzed the circumstances under which a trial court may award attorney fees to a defendant for claims brought in bad faith under the Pennsylvania Uniform Trade Secrets Act (PUTSA), 12 Pa. C.S.A.§ 5301 et seq, in the case Krafft v. Downey, 68 A.3d 329 (Pa. Super. 2013). In Krafft, the Superior Court utilized a two-prong test for determining whether a trade secret claim was brought in bad faith.
6 minute read

Commercial Litigation Insider

Court Examines Lower Bounds of Trade Secret Protection

In his Intellectual Property column for NYLJ, Stephen M. Kramarsky, a member of Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky, writes: The court in 'Big Vision' held that plaintiff had failed to adequately protect its purportedly secret industrial process and in the process provided an excellent road map of the potential difficulties awaiting any New York trade secret plaintiff.
13 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Good News for Accused Texas IP Counsel

A Texas state court has lifted the temporary restraining order against Charlotte Rutherford, the former deputy general counsel for intellectual property at Schlumberger Ltd.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Texas IP Counsel Accused of Trade Secret Theft

Schlumberger Ltd. has filed a legal action against its former deputy general counsel for intellectual property, who went to work for a company that had filed a patent suit against Schlumberger.
4 minute read

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