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Attaching Confidential Settlement Agreement to Complaint Serves as Basis for Counterclaim

Trade secret and contract claims often travel together. For example, a failed collaboration that involved the exchange of confidential information may result in the disclosing party alleging that the recipient both...more

Seventh Circuit Opinion Reminds of Need to Identify Trade Secrets with Particularity

Actuators are remotely operated mechanized devices used in a variety of applications, such as opening and closing valves. They are often operated hydraulically, which requires them to have their own valves. Maintaining the...more

Dividing Misappropriation Claim Among Different Trade Secrets Ineffective to Avoid Statute of Limitations

In most states for certain claims, the statute of limitations is tempered by the "discovery rule," under which the limitations period does not start until the claimant knew or should have known of its claim against the...more

Company’s Covert Monitoring of Former Employees’ Private Facebook Messenger Conversations Was Not “Unclean Hands” - Preventing...

The equitable defense of "unclean hands" is often raised but rarely proven. Sometimes stated as "he who comes into equity must come with clean hands," it is based on the maxim that "he that hath committed iniquity shall not...more

State Supreme Court Protects Trade Secrets from Disclosure in Litigation

The Supreme Court of Texas recently ruled that a trial court erred in a hearing on a misappropriation of trade secrets claim. The lower court had summarily refused the plaintiff's request to exclude the designated corporate...more

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