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J. Nivison grants a pharmaceutical company’s motion for a letter request from the court that would require two New England companies to produce documents related to the pharma firm’s claims of misappropriating its confidential, proprietary information. While some aspects of the request need to be modified, overall it is focused and not overly vague.
Court: USDC Maine, Judge: Nivison, Filed On: February 22, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv237, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, Unfair Competition, discovery
J. Jewell partly grants mandamus relief in a dispute over the discovery order in a misappropriation of trade secrets case. The former employee should not have been compelled to turn over the Western Digital hard drive without the court addressing privileged or confidential data on the device. Also, the former employee should not have been compelled to turn over the USB storage device since he met his discovery obligations for the device.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Jewell, Filed On: January 30, 2024, Case #: 14-23-00183-CV, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery
J. Ho grants, in part, a realty company's motion for fee shifting as a sanction against an attorney in a trade secrets case. The attorney relied on assumptions, rather than facts, regarding the existence of requested records when he refused to comply with certain discovery orders.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Ho, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv2847, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: Sanctions, trade Secrets, discovery
J. Immergut reserves ruling on Nike's motion to compel exhibits consisting of redacted minutes from a meeting among the computer store's board of directors held in August 2018, as well as a 17-page document shared by the computer store's former CEO about another executive. The issue for both exhibits must be resolved through in-camera review, because there is insufficiency regarding the computer store's privilege log entry and there is a lack of evidence of the privileged nature of the cover letter in the 17-page document.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Immergut, Filed On: January 16, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv1556, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery
J. DeGiusti grants the plaintiff company's motion to compel discovery from certain defendants in this lawsuit concerning "the sale of a small-town valve manufacturing company" and the non-solicitation provisions included in the asset purchase agreement. The defendants, which include a former employee and his new valve company, have a duty to supplement their responses.
Court: USDC Western District of Oklahoma , Judge: DeGiusti, Filed On: January 5, 2024, Case #: 5:21cv368, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery, Contract
J. Gorton denies an artificial intelligence company and two former employees of an actuarial and consulting firm’s motion to file an amended answer and counterclaims after the actuarial and consulting firm sued them for misappropriation of trade secrets and patent infringement. The deadline for amendments is not going to be extended based on information found during discovery because the AI company and the former employees deferred discovery.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Gorton, Filed On: December 22, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv10865, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, trade Secrets, discovery
J. Deavers denies, in part, the competitor's motion to compel discovery, ruling the auto glass company has provided sufficient responses to interrogatories about potential damages for loss of business, although supplementation from expert witnesses may be required further along in the case. However, the motion to compel will be granted as it pertains to the competitor's request for additional information about the pay scale for glass technicians, which does not cover all of the glass company's 13,000 employees, but rather a small subset that is crucial to the case.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Deavers, Filed On: November 14, 2023, Case #: 2:21cv4558, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery, Contract
J. Burkhardt grants a former senior account manager's motion to compel her former life science company employer to produce a modified version of an incentive plan document. The former employee, who is being sued for allegedly stealing trade secrets, sufficiently shows that the document would support her counterclaim for past due incentive rewards.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Burkhardt, Filed On: November 13, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv1952, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: Employment, trade Secrets, discovery
J. Robart partially grants the aircraft manufacturer's motion to seal an exhibit from its complaint that Boeing infringed on its hybrid-electric and electric aircraft technology. The exhibit contains Boeing's first set of interrogatories seeking a description of the aircraft manufacturer's trade secrets, and the aircraft manufacturer is right to be concerned that unauthorized persons could have access to its proprietary technology and business strategies, including those detailing its software platform, powertrain system, propulsion system and market analytics.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Robart, Filed On: November 1, 2023, Case #: 2:21cv896, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent, trade Secrets, discovery
J. Cole grants in part the motion filed by a former employee and his new employer, a power company, to vacate or modify preliminary injunction for violating the company’s non-competition agreement. The power company has not been properly notified or had the chance to be heard because they were not a party at the time the preliminary injunction was issued. This court orders, adjudges and decrees the new preliminary injunction enjoining the employee and those parties in active participation with him from disclosing any documents from the former employer.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Cole, Filed On: October 18, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv352, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery, Injunction
J. Dorsey grants the private equity investment firm's motion for a temporary restraining order prohibiting its former employee from sharing confidential information, directing him to return it. The firm has shown a likelihood of success on its claim that trade secrets were misappropriated when the employee downloaded confidential files. The district court also grants the firm's motion to seal an exhibit to its motion and to conduct early discovery before a preliminary injunction hearing as releasing the information could potentially damage the firm.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Dorsey , Filed On: September 15, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv1339, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: Securities, trade Secrets, discovery
J. Jolson grants, in part, the decorated metal products company's motion to compel, ruling the competitor must provide a more detailed answer to the first interrogatory regarding the number of steps in its newly patented decoration procedure to determine whether it infringes on the metal products company's patent or is a proprietary trade secret.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Jolson, Filed On: August 8, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv3433, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery
J. Robart grants the biopharmaceutical company's request for judicial notice of a March 2023 order from the High Court of Judicature in Bombay, India, regarding its complaint alleging that the multinational pharmaceutical company took credit for the biopharmaceutical company's development of a Covid-19 vaccine. To give the biopharmaceutical company's Indian counsel time to depose seven Indian witnesses in accordance with the March 2023 order, the jurisdictional discovery deadline is extended by 25 days.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Robart, Filed On: June 30, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv334, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery, Covid-19
J. Coulson partially denies a pharmaceutical contract service provider its motion for protective order to limit a vaccine manufacturer’s second amended notice in a trade secrets suit. Litigation began when an employee allegedly shared trade secrets from the provider when the manufacturer hired her. Since then, the manufacturer has succeeded in having the initial suit against it dismissed for the provider’s failure to state a claim. As part of discovery, the manufacturer has made a litany of requests, most of which are legitimate and will proceed in its second amended notice.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Coulson, Filed On: June 7, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv1959, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: trade Secrets, discovery