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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

Are employer social networking accounts protectable trade secrets?

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 13 2012

Social media has become an increasingly important tool for businesses to market their products and services

Connecticut Supreme Court rules that a public agency can create and maintain trade secrets

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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March 16 2012

The Supreme Court of Connecticut has ruled that a public agency, the University of Connecticut, can create and maintain trade secrets that are exempt from disclosure under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”

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.”

Eighth Circuit holds that a compilation of otherwise public information can be a trade secret

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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December 22 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently held that compilations containing only minimal secret information nevertheless qualified for trade secret protection because the substantial investment involved in preparing them gave their owner a competitive advantage and because the owner undertook reasonable efforts to maintain their secrecy by labeling them with a proprietary legend and only distributing them to parties which signed a confidentiality agreement

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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