Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - An Idea Doesn’t Have to be Novel to be Stolen (In California)
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: An Idea Doesn't Have to be Novel to be Stolen (In California)
A New London Connecticut Superior Court jury awarded an $839,423 verdict in November 2019, involving theft of trade secrets for a $70 million U.S. Navy underwater drone project. This case, LBI, Inc. v. Sparks, et al.,...more
This week, the United States Senate passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, which, if passed by the House and signed into law by President Obama, would give trade secret owners, including manufacturers, a federal private...more
In late 2015, Atlantic Marine Construction Company, a Virginia Beach construction company, filed a lawsuit against a former Vice President of Construction and his new employer, alleging various causes of action arising out of...more
Altavion v. KMSL extends trade secret protection to valuable design concepts even when those design ideas are shared during a negotiation. Implications - In Altavion v. KMSL, the California Court of Appeal...more
Here’s a small-time Silicon Valley inventor’s worst nightmare: he shops his technology to a large multi-national company, but the company declines to implement his idea as pitched. Instead, the multi-national company turns...more