332 results for 'cat:"Trade Secrets"'.
Per curiam, the appeals court finds the trial court improperly overruled the roofing company's trade-secret objections to the insurance company's discovery demands in the parties' dispute over payment for roofing work for an insured, without reviewing the trade-secret materials or holding an evidentiary hearing. The roofing company's petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, and the trial court's order is quashed.
Court: Florida Courts Of Appeal, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: May 31, 2024, Case #: 23-2629, Categories: trade Secrets, Discovery, Contract
J. Nunley allows a spray booth company to pursue its misappropriation of trade secrets, contract and unjust enrichment claims against a distributor who allegedly began selling products manufactured using confidential information he learned from the company’s onsite training. The company has sufficiently alleged that information related to the spray booth features is not accessible to the public and that the distributor only learned of the features through in-depth training on the company's products after entering into an authorized distributor agreement.
Court: USDC Eastern District of California, Judge: Nunley, Filed On: May 28, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1453, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: trade Secrets, Contract
J. Brailsford grants a licensed broker-dealer's motion to dismiss, denies in part its motion to compel arbitration and stays the case pending arbitration. A credit union alleges that former employees went to work for a competitor and "aggressively solicited" its customers and employees for the benefit of the competitor. The credit union asserts claims of wrongful conduct against the competitor and former employees, but not against the licensed broker-dealer. The credit union must arbitrate its claims against the former employees, but is not required to arbitrate its remaining claims.
Court: USDC Idaho, Judge: Brailsford, Filed On: May 24, 2024, Case #: 4:23cv433, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Arbitration, trade Secrets, Contract
J. Boor partially grants motions to compel from Fiskars in its lawsuit alleging its competitor poached its employees, took its confidential trade secrets and violated patents related to its gardening hand-tools. Fiskars' motion to compel source code and documents related to the point of sale systems at 12 of its competitors' retailers is denied, in part because its request was made over three months after the liability expert disclosure deadline. Fiskars' other motions to compel related to the competitors' corporate structure, accounting structure, business-related documents and documents regarding the products protected by patents the competitor is said to have violated are partially granted.
Court: USDC Western District of Wisconsin, Judge: Boor, Filed On: May 24, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv540, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, trade Secrets
J. Hardy dismisses a telecom tower tenant’s claims alleging misappropriation of trade secrets by a competitor. The telecom tower tenant’s claims are inconsistent, imprecise, unconvincing and impossible for the court to determine whether any actionable instances of misappropriation are alleged.
Court: USDC Western District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Hardy, Filed On: May 23, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1017, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, Unfair Competition, Business Practices
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J. Orme finds that the trial court properly ordered the release of unredacted expenditure reports from a state contractor working to remove the Canadian Gray Wolf from the Endangered Species Act listing. The contractor failed to support an argument that its subcontractors faced threats from animal rights groups, or that the names of its subcontractors are commercially sensitive, while the public has a strong interest in information about public contract expenditures. Affirmed.
Court: Utah Court Of Appeals, Judge: Orme, Filed On: May 23, 2024, Case #: 20210792-CA, Categories: Environment, Public Record, trade Secrets
J. Cunningham finds that the appeals court improperly revived this case alleging violations of the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The carpet cleaning product manufacturer's claims seeking injunctive relief under the Act for violations of the Detergents Act must be dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies, as these claims are required to be considered by the Pollution Control Board. Reversed.
Court: Illinois Supreme Court, Judge: Cunningham, Filed On: May 23, 2024, Case #: 129183, Categories: trade Secrets
J. Gorenstein partially grants Web MD's motion for reconsideration of this court's prior order in a discovery dispute in this trade secrets case. Web MD is severely prejudiced by the plaintiff's failure to preserve data kept in a Salesforce database, resulting in Web MD being unable to test its claims. Therefore, all evidence related to the alleged misappropriation of data from this database must be excluded.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Gorenstein, Filed On: May 22, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv53, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Sanctions, trade Secrets, Discovery
J. Graz finds a lower court properly granted declaratory judgment in favor of a former worker on contract claims brought by a chemical company. The chemical company argued that the former worker violated his agreement by refusing to adhere to non- solicitation, non- compete, and non- disclosure pacts. However, the former worker sufficiently showed in court that he was not an actual employee and did not owe contractual obligations to the chemical company based on lack of participation in an Equity plan. Affirmed.
Court: 8th Circuit, Judge: Grasz, Filed On: May 17, 2024, Case #: 23-1193, Categories: Employment, trade Secrets, Contract
J. Garcia finds that the lower court properly granted no-evidence summary judgment in favor of the appellees on the clinical pharmacy's claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference and breach of contract. Contrary to the pharmacy's argument on appeal, the time allowed for discovery was adequate. Also, the pharmacy failed to show that it suffered damages in support of its breach of contract claim against its former employee. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Garcia, Filed On: May 16, 2024, Case #: 05-22-01276-CV, Categories: trade Secrets, Damages, Contract
J. Davis grants in part the pharmaceutical company’s preliminary injunction as to its misappropriation of trade secrets claim and its claim for breach of the confidentiality provision of an agreement in its case against a former employee. The company has sufficiently shown it will suffer competitive harm absent the injunction due to the former employee’s unauthorized acquisition of its protected information.
Court: North Carolina Business Court, Judge: Davis, Filed On: May 15, 2024, Case #: 2023 NCBC 32, Categories: trade Secrets
J. Autrey denies the apparel company's motion for a restraining order against a competitor in a trade secrets dispute. A number of its employees went to work for the competitor, and the company claims that these employees stole a hoodie and T-shirt design for the tool brand Snap-on, but the hoodies are no longer in production so the company cannot show it will be irreparably harmed without a restraining order.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Missouri, Judge: Autrey, Filed On: May 14, 2024, Case #: 4:24cv620, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets
J. Merkl grants, in part, the parties’ motions to seal their respective motions for summary judgment in a trademark infringement lawsuit over the sale of Fossil-brand watches. The court seals information deemed trade secrets or confidential, including where certain watch parts are fabricated, while preserving any information that the court will use to analyze their claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Merkl, Filed On: May 9, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv2441, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, Trademark
J. Wang denies an insurer a temporary restraining order in claims contending an agent breached his exclusive agreement and appropriated customer information to support a competing business, then responded to the insurer's suit with a smear campaign, because the insurer failed to establish a likelihood of success in the defamation action.
Court: USDC Colorado, Judge: Wang, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: 1:24cv933, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: trade Secrets, Defamation
J. Horan finds that a plaintiff home loan company that claims a defendant financial company misappropriated the plaintiff company’s trade secrets does not need to provide further specific information about the trade secrets to supplement several of defendant’s interrogatories. The plaintiff company responded to the questions as asked and is not required to provide information beyond the language of the original interrogatories. Defendant's request for an order compelling plaintiff to provide further information is denied.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Horan, Filed On: May 7, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv2298, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, Discovery
J. Ellis partially grants the sued trading platform’s motion to dismiss the suing financial technology company’s allegations of trade secrets misappropriation. The fintech firm accuses the trading platform of violating a prior contract to market the plaintiff’s trading software, specifically a clause prohibiting reverse-engineering the software. The court finds the fintech firm has sufficiently stated claims under the Illinois Trade Secrets Act and federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, but that these same claims preempt allegations of tortious interference with economic advantage, unfair competition, fraud and unjust enrichment.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Ellis, Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv14192, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: Fraud, trade Secrets, Tort
J. Grant finds that the district court improperly dismissed the company's breach of contract and trade secrets action against the ex-employee and the competitor arising after they allegedly stole trade secrets about the company's government contract to improve the competitor's bid for the same contract. The company and the competitor are both tribally-owned businesses. Since the competitor's alleged misconduct is related to its participation in the business development program, the company's trade secrets claims fall under the scope of the competitor's sovereign immunity waiver. The district court incorrectly failed to consider the enforceability of the forum selection clause naming an allegedly nonexistent tribal court as the proper forum before dismissing the breach of contract claim against the ex-employee. Reversed.
Court: 11th Circuit, Judge: Grant, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 22-12669, Categories: trade Secrets, Contract