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What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but misappropriation of trade secrets and unauthorized disclosure of confidential information will still land you in hot water according to recent Supreme Court of Nevada decision

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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March 10 2012

In Finkel v. Cashman Professional, Inc., et al., Case Nos. 54520, 55377, 2012 WL 669897 (Nev. March 1, 2012), the Supreme Court of Nevada addressed the validity of non-solicitation, non-competition, and non-disclosure covenants and the proper duration of a preliminary injunction prohibiting disclosure or use of trade secrets

Tidings of data theft and coal: California Federal Court holds that trade secret misappropriation statute preempts claim for misappropriation of confidential non-trade secret data

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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December 24 2012

There was only coal delivered for California employers in a recent California federal decision in which the Court refused to permit a plaintiff to proceed

You think trade secrets are important? So does the FBI

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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June 1 2012

The FBI recently launched an initiative to curb the growing rise of trade secret and other intellectual property theft

California Court of Appeal decision throws specific performance to the wind for California businesses intending to use trade secrets as a basis to enforce covenants not to compete

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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September 1 2009

On August 20, 2009, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District issued an order certifying publication of its decision in The Retirement Group v. Galante, No. D054207, 2009 WL 2332008 (Cal. App. 4th July 30, 2009

The Ninth Circuit's Comedy Club, Inc. v. Improv West Associates decision is no laughing matter for franchisors

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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February 25 2009

After obtaining a sweeping nationwide injunction from an arbitrator that enjoined licensee Comedy Club, Inc. (“CCI”) from opening any new comedy clubs until 2019 pursuant to a trademark license agreement, licensorcompetitor Improv West Associates (“Improv”) could not have been in the mood for laughs when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit modified the arbitrator’s injunction by significantly narrowing its scope and breadth

With mass layoffs comes the potential for mass misappropriation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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February 10 2009

Mass layoffs are painful events for employees and employers alike

Comedy Club update

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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October 16 2009

As mentioned in a previous blog entry, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in Comedy Club, Inc. v. Improv West Associates, 553 F.3d 1277 (9th Cir. 2009), that an in-term (during the term of the contractrelationship) covenant not to compete governed by California law was enforceable to the extent that it did not foreclose competition in a substantial share of a business, trade, or market

Bimbo Bakeries v. Botticella: man vs. muffin, muffin wins injunction

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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August 3 2010

On July 27, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court’s order enjoining a senior executive from Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc., from working for one of Bimbo’s competitors, Hostess, until after the district court resolved the merits of Bimbo’s misappropriation of trade secrets claim against the executive

Wiener v. Wiener: a wiener controversy of a different (trade secrets) sort

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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June 27 2011

There is wiener controversy brewing, but this one does not involve Twitter or a Representative from New York

Ninth Circuit rejects application of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in employee theft cases

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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April 12 2012

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, a Ninth Circuit en banc panel released its highly anticipated decision in United States v. Nosal

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