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Chemical Biggies in Trade Secrets Spat

August 18, 2008 12:19

Dow Jones, via CNN.money, reports on a trade secrets actions in federal court in the Southern District of New York between Koch Industries subsidiary, Invista, and DuPont and Rhodia. The claims relate to alleged theft of Invista's trade secrets concerning proprietary technology for the production...

IDX Media Claims Former Executive Stole Their Trade Secrets

August 14, 2008 17:39

A California company that supplies data application systems to real estate agents is suing a former executive for violating trade secrets.IDX Media LLC of Sebastopol, Calif., claims its former vice president for product development, Daniel Evans of Belleville, solicited multiple clients to end...

Another Public/Private Hybrid Trade Secrets Issue

August 13, 2008 13:50

Duke Energy has been sued by a former employee who apparently claims that he was terminated for making an issue about the legality of payments made by Duke Energy to large customers. Duke Energy is now arguing that the legality or illegality of those payments is a matter for the Ohio Supreme Court...

Chinese Economic Espionage -- The Mistress is Sentenced

August 06, 2008 13:58

From the AP via Google, a follow up to our earlier post here, concerning an economic espionage case against a Chinese national, Yu Xin Kang, convicted of aiding and abetting the earlier-convicted Tai Shen Kuo. She was Kuo's mistress.According to prosecutors in the Northern District of Virginia,...

More Public-Private Trade Secret Disputes - This Time PETA is Involved

August 01, 2008 13:13

The clarionledger.com is reporting the Iams Company's records from seven years of pet food research at Mississippi State University are not public documents, the state Supreme Court has ruled.In 2006, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued Mississippi State University.It alleged the...

More Public-Private Trade Secret Disputes - This Time in Helena, Montana

July 31, 2008 15:55

The authors of the WombleTradeSecrets (um, that's us) are starting to see more and more disputes of the type we are reporting on in this post - private companies providing information to public entities for some public/private contracting purpose AND THEN the press or consumer advocacy group or...

Settlement in Motorola Trade Secrets Case That Had $23 Million Sanction Issued In It

July 30, 2008 15:40

We've blogged about this case before: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2007/04/motorola-ordered-to-pay-229-million-in.htmlWell, law.com is reporting that the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida trade secrets case brought by SPS Technologies against Motorola has settled.

Oracle v. SAP Trade Secrets Case Getting Messier

July 29, 2008 20:56

We've blogged this case before: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2007/09/oracle-v-sap-trade-secrets-case-could.html#links.The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Oracle is attempting to file an amended complaint that alleges SAP Board members were well aware a company they were acquiring...

Happy Birthday -- Sort Of -- to the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act

July 29, 2008 11:16

Saturday, July 26, was the 19th Anniversary of the first indictment under the Federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, passed earlier in 1986. Robert T. Morris a Harvard graduate and a graduate student at Cornell, developed the first widely spread Internet virus, and the first worm virus. He was...

Honeywell Sues Akebono and Two Former Employees for Trade Secrets Theft

July 28, 2008 13:36

On July 24, 2008, Honeywell International sued Akebono Corporation, Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. and Sunil Kesavan and Ximming Shao for misappropriating trade secrets that relate to the making of fiction materials for automotive brake pads.Honeywell claims that a secret process one of its...