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Car Shipper’s Federal — But Not State — Trade Secrets Claims Survive in Alleged Cross-Border Undercutting Scheme

Montway LLC is an Illinois-based leading automotive-transport broker that assists customers with transporting their vehicles across the country to alleviate them of the burden of driving those vehicles themselves....more

Court Lets BDO’s Trade Secrets Lawsuit Against Ankura Move Forward

The plaintiff, BDO USA, P.C. is an accounting and professional services advisory firm. The defendants are Ankura Consulting Group, LLC, Ankura’s CEO Kevin Lavin, and Phuoc Vin Phan....more

Third Circuit: Your Passwords May Be Valuable to You, But They Are Not Trade Secrets

The plaintiff National Recovery Agency Group, LLC (NRA) is a debt-collection firm that maintains large volumes of personally identifiable information (PII) of individual debtors....more

Wu Tang’s ‘Shaolin’ Album: Court Lets Trade Secret Case Proceed

Wu-Tang Clan produced a single physical copy of the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” which was never publicly released. In 2015, Martin Shkreli purchased the album....more

Court Allows Biohaven and Yale’s Trade Secret Claims to Proceed in MODA Technology Dispute

Dr. David Spiegel, a Yale University professor, developed a new approach to targeted protein degradation using MODA technology (bi-functional synthetic molecules for degrading extracellular proteins)....more

DTSA Statute of Limitations and Reasonable Diligence in Employee Trade Secret Misappropriation Claims

The court held that the statute of limitations began to run from the date when a former employee produced confidential company financial during discovery in an unrelated matter, and not from the earlier date when the former...more

Court Upholds Gilks’ Trade Secrets in Fly Boatworks Dispute

This case is an important reminder that in trade secrets litigation, the specific business context is critically important and may be outcome determinative. Here, a closely held business was held to a much more lenient...more

Trade Secrets and Noncompete Agreements: Analysis of Significant Cases and Emerging Trends

Trade secrets, noncompetes, and other restrictive covenants continued to make headlines in 2024. Most notably, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a final rule imposing a near total ban on employee noncompetes that...more

Federal District Court Imposes High Bar on Standing for Plaintiffs Asserting Mental Health Parity Claims

In a recent decision, the US District Court for the District of Utah granted United Healthcare’s (UHC) motion for summary judgment on the plaintiff’s facial and as-applied claims under the Mental Health Parity Act. If...more

PFAS-Containing Consumer Products Under Attack in California

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are present in a variety of consumer products. PFAS have been increasingly targeted in laws and regulations and have served as a hotbed for class action lawsuits, particularly in...more

2021 Trade Secrets End of Year Report: Analysis of the Year’s Key Cases & Trends

In 2021, trade secrets and non-competes continued to garner attention on the national stage. Non-competes were the focus of significant legislative activity at both the federal and local levels, while trade secrets lead to...more

Trade Secrets 2020: Analysis of the Year’s Key Cases & Trends

As increasing scrutiny was cast at the state and federal level on noncompetition agreements and other restrictive covenants, companies were forced to assess their ability to safeguard trade secret information. Not to mention...more

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