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Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Trade Secret Theft

China, USA - November 26 2019 A Chinese national, and former scientist for Phillips 66, pled guilty to stealing trade secret information from his former employer related to the…

Steven Grimes, Shannon T. Murphy

Ninth Circuit Rules That the Identification of a Trade Secret May Be Developed Through Discovery

USA - November 12 2020 The Ninth Circuit recently reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to a defendant alleged to have misappropriated trade secrets…

Steven Grimes, Corinne Stone Hockman, Shannon T. Murphy

Eleventh Circuit Rules That Scraping Publicly Available Data May Constitute Trade Secret Misappropriation

USA - June 9 2020 The Eleventh Circuit recently overturned a magistrate’s conclusion that the public availability of information the defendants scraped from a website…

Steven Grimes, Shannon T. Murphy

CMBS Litigation Redux: The First COVID Crisis Claims

USA - April 7 2020 On March 25, 2020, affiliates of AG Mortgage Investment Trust—a publicly traded mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT)— sued Royal Bank of…

Joseph L. Motto, James Smith, Thomas G. Weber

Court Battle Between India’s SaaS Industry Leaders Being Fought in California

India, USA - December 22 2020 A District Court in the Northern District of California recently denied defendant’s motion to dismiss a trade secret misappropriation case that was…

Steven Grimes