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FTC investigating overlap on Google and Apple boards

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2009

On May 4, it was reported that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether having two common directors on the boards of Apple Inc. and Google Inc. violates antitrust law

Negotiating and managing complex commercial transactions: confidentiality and supply agreement

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2007

Your company decides to sell a plant, but needs the products manufactured there and, therefore, needs a supply agreement with the buyer

FTC approves annual adjustments to thresholds for interlocking directorates

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2008

Section 8 of the Clayton Act generally prohibits a person from serving as a director or officer of two competing corporations (so called “interlocking directorates”) if each corporation is of a certain minimum size

European Court of Justice rejects attorney-client privilege for in-house counsel

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 17 2010

In a much anticipated decision, issued on September 14, 2010, the European Court of Justice reconfirmed that communications with in-house counsel are not privileged under European Union law (E.U.) Case C-55007, Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd. & Akros Chemicals Ltd. v. European Commission

The Akzo Nobel decision: a warning to the unwary

  • Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • September 28 2010

The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Akzo Nobel is an important reminder of the perils of assuming that jurisdictions outside the United States give the same status to in-house counsel as our own courts

New day in Georgia for restrictive covenants

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

On November 2, Georgians voted overwhelmingly in favor of updating Georgia's restrictive covenant law

Washington Supreme Court recasts the economic loss rule to allow third party tort claims against design professionals

  • Lane Powell PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2010

A sharply divided Washington Supreme Court has held that an engineering firm owes a "duty of reasonable care encompassing safety risks of physical damage" to a party not in privity with the engineering firm

A new day for noncompete agreements in Georgia

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2010

On November 2, 2010 voters in Georgia decided whether to "make Georgia more economically competitive by authorizing legislation to uphold reasonable competitive agreements."

Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Kirkland: Delaware Court of Chancery provides guidance on pleading claims for unfair competition, tortious interference with prospective business relations, and violations of the Delaware Deceptive Trade Practices Act

  • Fish & Richardson PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 16 2010

The jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery was expanded in 2003 to cover a broader array of technology disputes

Jury must decide whether a manufacturing process that is disclosed in an expired patent and is not concealed from visitors to the plant constitutes a trade secret

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2011

When a defendant, sued by a former employer for misappropriating a manufacturing process that allegedly constituted a trade secret, denies that the process is confidential and files a counterclaim alleging that the plaintiff is engaged in sham litigation in order to stifle competition, is it appropriate for the court to instruct the jury that the evidence shows plaintiff does not have a valid trade secret?