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On May 28, 2026, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a $59 million damages award for trade secret misappropriation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) on statute of limitations grounds....more
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When an employee leaves to join a competitor, the former employer may have concerns that the employee will use its proprietary and confidential business information to assist that competitor. ...more
Il est bien établi en droit canadien que la responsabilité personnelle des administrateurs et dirigeants ne peut être retenue pour les actes de l’entreprise, sauf dans des circonstances justifiant la levée du voile...more
A growing body of law indicates that inputting proprietary information into public artificial intelligence tools may undermine the reasonable measures and confidentiality requirements that are central to trade secret...more
Welcome to the third installment of our “Scam Likely” series. In our prior posts, we examined bank impersonation scams and romance scams; here, we turn to a threat that hits even closer to home: invoice fraud. The Set Up...more
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The biggest cases of corruption and fraud often have their roots in the soil of conflicts of interest. Many major corruption cases begin with something companies initially dismiss as just a conflicts issue....more
On 12 May 2026, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) drew the line on how far mass claims aggregation can go (case no. KZR 6/24 – Sammelklage-Inkasso). The case involved bundled cartel damages...more
Insulet Corp. v. EOFlow, Co. Ltd. - Before Dyk, Prost, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. A trade secret misappropriation claim accrues when the plaintiff knew or should...more
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In a 2-1 decision authored by Judge Timothy B. Dyk, the Federal Circuit reversed a jury verdict awarding Insulet Corporation over $59 million in compensatory and exemplary damages for trade secret misappropriation under the...more
AI systems pose distinct challenges for pleading and responding to trade secret misappropriation claims. Their models and code are complex, adaptive, and often opaque. Courts, however, increasingly require plaintiffs to...more
Insulet Corp. v. EOFlow, Co. Ltd., Appeal No. 2025-1807 (Fed. Cir. May 28, 2026) - In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit considered a trade secrets case in a 47-page...more
The United States Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC is a significant ruling for freight brokers, motor carriers, shippers, logistics companies and businesses that rely on third-party...more
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Despite the tournament bringing roughly 500,000 visitors to Texas across nine matches at “Dallas Stadium” (the FIFA-rebranded AT&T Stadium in Arlington) and seven at Houston’s NRG Stadium, plus the free FIFA Fan Festival...more
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