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Court enjoins former American Airlines employee from further web postings of confidential information
- Epstein Becker Green
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- USA
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- September 11 2012
Last week, American Airlines and one of its former employees, Gailen David, entered in to an agreed permanent injunction which prohibits David from disseminating certain confidential, proprietary or trade secret information through any medium
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
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.”
Once again, an alleged international trade secrets heist draws a federal indictment
- Epstein Becker Green
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- USA
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- October 6 2011
As we have noted in prior blog posts, alleged thefts of trade secrets are generally handled through the civil court system, and rarely result in criminal prosecution
Judge denies TRO in Chicago hot dogtrade secrets war
- Epstein Becker Green
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- USA
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- June 29 2011
Vienna Beef, the official hot dog of the Chicago Cubs, recently struck out in its effort to obtain a temporary restraining order against hot dog rival Red Hot Chicago, Inc. and the grandson of one of the founders of Vienna Beef, Scott D. Ladany
Former paint company technical director sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for trade secret theft
- Epstein Becker Green
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- USA
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- December 13 2010
Last September, we wrote about David Yen Lee, a former technical director for a painting and coating company who pled guilty to downloading trade secrets from a secure computer system and transferring them to external thumb drives with the intention of using the trade secrets for the benefit of another
Multi-million dollar trade secret heist results in federal criminal plea
- Epstein Becker Green
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- USA
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- September 7 2010
In the latest example of a significant international trade secret theft resulting in a federal criminal prosecution, chemist David Yen Lee recently pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to "knowingly and without authorization" possessing one or more trade secrets of his former employer Valspar Corporation ("Valspar") with intent to convert them "to the economic benefit of someone other than the owner
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Designs and trade secrets
- Workarea - Litigation
- Author - Peter A. Steinmeyer