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Missouri Supreme Court affirms tortious interference verdict against manager who went to a competitor

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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May 10 2012

In Western Blue Print Company, LLC v. Myrna Roberts et al., the Missouri Supreme Court recently affirmed a tortious interference verdict against a manager who left to join a competitor, largely because the manager engaged in inappropriate conduct when departing one employer for another

Employer illegally seized former employee's LinkedIn account, but employee suffered no provable damages

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 23 2013

Social media has changed the way that companies and employees connect to clients and customers. As new uses for social networking emerge, legal

Race car driver's post-employment royalty provision held to be unenforceable under Illinois law

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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October 7 2009

A federal judge in Illinois recently held that a contractual requirement that a professional race car driver pay post-employment royalties to his former employer is unenforceable

Utah decision broadly construes the uniform trade secrets act's preemption provision

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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March 14 2012

In a decision recently issued by the Utah Court of Appeals, CDC Restoration & Construction, LC v. Tradesmen Contractors, LLC et al., the court broadly interpreted the preemption clause in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”) to hold that it “preempts claims based on the unauthorized use of information, irrespective of whether that information meets the statutory definition of a trade secret.”

Illinois Supreme Court clarifies standard for enforcing non-compete agreements

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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December 7 2011

On December 1, 2011, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its opinion in Reliable Fire Equipment Company v. Arredondo, et al., which resolved several years of confusion over the appropriate standard for enforcing non-compete agreements in Illinois

Former Motorola software engineer sentenced to four years in prison for trade secret theft

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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August 30 2012

Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo sentenced a former Motorola software engineer, Hanjuan Jin, to four years in prison for stealing Motorola trade secrets related to proprietary technology

Contractual clause requiring return of confidential information at termination helps former employer obtain injunction on misappropriation claim

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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January 3 2013

Trade secret misappropriation cases turn on details. Accordingly, it is always interesting to see the particular details which tilt a court's decision one

Requiring that employee agree to a non-compete in order to get severance benefits violated employer's severance plan

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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November 12 2012

In Pactiv Corporation v. Rupert, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently held that under an employer’s severance pay plan, the employer could not require a former employee to agree to a restrictive covenant in order to receive severance pay

Former Dupont employee sentenced to 18 months for trade secret misappropriation

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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March 22 2010

A former engineer and salesman for DuPont, Michael Mitchell, was recently sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets and providing them to a Korean rival of DuPont

Federal court in Chicago refuses to issue injunction based upon either an "inevitable disclosure" claim or a 24-month non-compete with an "extremely broad" geographic scope

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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January 10 2012

A federal judge in Chicago recently refused to issue an injunction based upon either the “inevitable disclosure” of trade secrets doctrine or a geographically broad, 24-month non-compete that did not have a narrowly drawn activity restriction

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