Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. v. Douglas Castro
Docket Number: 650053/2013 Headline: Ex-Charles Schwab employee Alledgedly Recruits Former Clients to Join New Competing Financial Group Securities brokerage firm Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. has...
View ArticleReser's Fine Foods Inc. v. Bob Evans Farms Inc. et al
Docket Number: 3:13-cv-00098 Headline: Oregon Food Co. Reser's Claims Former Business Partner Stole Trade Secret Baking Technique In a complaint filed mid-January 2013 in Oregon Federal District...
View ArticleRiverboat Corp. of Miss. v. Doug Shipley et. al.
Docket Number: Case No. A2402-13-28 Headline: Isle of Biloxi Casino Claims Ex-Employee Took Trade Secrets to Margaritaville On February 8, 2013 Riverboat Corporation of Mississippi, owner of the...
View ArticleEcosphere Technologies, Inc. v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
Docket Number: N/A Headline: Halliburton Served with $300 Million Demand for Arbitration over Trade Secret Theft On February 21, 2013, Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (“Ecosphere”) put industry giant...
View ArticleFerrer v. SAS Stressteel
Docket Number: C-000323-13 (NJ Sup.) Headline: The Employee Who Was Allowed to Compete from His Garage This case starts with an unusual employment agreement, which allowed Felix Ferrer to operate a...
View ArticleMGA Entertainment Inc. v. Mattel Inc. et al.
Docket Number: BC532708 Headline: Still Fighting over Dolls: MGA Refiles its Claim Against Mattel in Cal. State Court, Claiming UTSA Violation In the latest chapter of this saga, MGA Entertainment...
View ArticleUnited States of America v. Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu,...
Docket Number: Criminal No. 14-118 Headline: U.S. Government Files Charges Against Chinese Officials for Cybertheft of Trade Secrets In the first time charges have ever been brought against a state...
View ArticleRoquette Freres SA v. Solazyme Inc.
Docket Number: 14-cv-01442 Headline: Solazyme Counter-Claims Trade Secret Misappropriation Solazyme is alleging that Roquette Freres SA misappropriated its trade secrets regarding algae-based...
View ArticleABB Turbo Systems, AG v. TurboUSA, Inc.
Docket Number: Case No. 2014-1356 Headline: Surviving A Motion to Dismiss in Trade Secret Cases The Federal Circuit held that the dismissal of a trade secrets complaint for failure to state a...
View ArticleFormer St. Jude VP Charged With Trade Secret Theft
Docket Number: N/A Headline: Breaking News Last week, Bryan Szweda, a former vice president at St. Jude Medical was charged with theft of trade secrets in Ramsey County District Court in Ramsey...
View ArticlePeople v. Jimmy John’s Enterprises, LLC
Docket Number: 2016-CH-07746 Headline: Illinois Attorney General Cracks Down On Overbroad Non-Competes The Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Lisa Madigan, has filed a complaint on behalf of...
View ArticlePeople v. Jimmy John's Enterprises (Update)
Docket Number: 2016-CH-07746 Headline: Jimmy John's Ditches Overbroad Non-Compete Agreements Jimmy John's, a sandwich shop chain incorporated in Delaware, has included broad non-compete agreements in...
View ArticleAdidas America, Inc. et al v. Skechers USA, inc.
Docket Number: 3:16-cv-01400 Headline: Adidas Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Skechers On July 11, 2016, Adidas filed suit against Skechers in the U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon for...
View ArticlePanera, LLC v. Michael R. Nettles and Papa John’s International, Inc.
Docket Number: Case No.: 16-1181 Headline: Defend Trade Secrets Act Takes a Bite Out of Fast Food Tussle Panera, LLC (“Plaintiff”) has filed a complaint against Papa John’s International, Inc. and...
View ArticlePalantir Technologies, Inc. v. Marc Abramowitz
Docket Number: 16CV299476 Headline: Former Palantir Employee Sued for Misappropriating Trade Secrets Palantir, a data analytics company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, filed a lawsuit on...
View ArticleMaxum Petroleum, Inc. v. Hiatt et al.
Docket Number: 3:16-cv-01615 Headline: Oil Company Files Federal Lawsuit After Former Employee Takes Position at Competitor Maxum Petroleum (“Plaintiff”) filed a lawsuit in federal court for...
View ArticleAmerica's Test Kitchen v. Christopher Kimball et al.
Docket Number: 1684-cv-03325 Headline: America’s Test Kitchen Sues Former Host for Misappropriating Tasty Trade Secrets America’s Test Kitchen Inc. (“Plaintiff”) owns multimedia publications and...
View ArticlePfizer, Inc. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission et al.
Docket Number: 1:16-cv-01228 Headline: Texas Agency Sued in Trade Secrets Lawsuit On November 17, 2016 pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Inc. (“Pfizer”) sued Texas’s Health and Human Services Commission...
View ArticleWaymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc; Ottomotto LLC; Otto Trucking LLC
Docket Number: 3:17-cv-00939 Headline: Battle of Self-Driving Cars Waymo LLC, a self-driving car startup under Alphabet (originally known as Google’s Self-Driving Car Project), filed a complaint in...
View ArticleOOO Brunswick Rail Mgt., et al. v. Sultanov, et al.
Docket Number: 5:17-cv-00017 Headline: Court Grants Ex Parte Seizure Order In Part under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) Defendants Richard Sultanov (“Sultanov”) and Paul Ostling (“Ostling,”...
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