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Unfair Competition: The Bad Faith Misappropriation of Confidential Information For a Commercial Advantage

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In Valkyrie AI LLC v. PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 06141 (1st Dept. Dec. 5, 2024) (here), the Appellate Division, First Department affirmed an order involving claims for unfair competition, tortious...more

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Logistics on the Offensive: Using Contractual and Common Law Rights as a Sword

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We are now in the era of freedom of contract in the logistics arena. While contracts provide many protections to contracting parties, they can also be used offensively, to affirmatively protect legal rights. ...more

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Trade Secret Litigation: The Power of Protection

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If, as the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then the insight provided by our Trade Secret Litigation team is weighty counsel that clients are wise to heed. Our attorneys’ understanding of the...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

CA Federal Court Awards Biomedical Companies $62M Following Jury Trial Involving Confidentiality-Related Claims

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On November 1, 2023, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California awarded damages to Skye Orthobiologics, LLC (“Skye”) and Human Regenerative Technologies, LLC (“HRT”) for breach of contract,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Relying on NDAs in Trade Secret Cases: Can Information be Confidential but not a Trade Secret?

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A Georgia jury recently found that a software contractor breached a non-disclosure/confidentiality agreement (NDA) entered in connection with a software project but did not misappropriate trade secrets. The plaintiff...more

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Here’s What You Need To Know About Protecting Trade Secrets

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What do you do when a key employee leaves and you believe he/she has taken your company’s trade secrets to a competitor? Or when a strategic business partner uses your trade secret information to compete against you?...more

Epstein Becker & Green

New London Connecticut Superior Court Jury Awards $839,423 Verdict for Theft of U.S. Navy Underwater Drone Project Trade Secrets

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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

Hogan Lovells

EU – Trade Secrets Law: practical implementation by businesses

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On 14 March, we organized alongside the Association française des juristes d’entreprise (AFJE) a workshop regarding the implementation of the Trade Secret Law in France, which was voted into force on 30 July 2018 and...more

Sunstein LLP

August 2018 IP Update - Non-Competition Agreements: Massachusetts Meets California Halfway

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California has long led the nation in its disdain for noncompetition agreements. Pressed by venture capitalists who believe that this gives California an advantage over other states, the Massachusetts legislature has finally...more

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