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Santa Clara County jury orders Pfizer to pay $38 million in stolen trade secrets case

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By Howard Mintz A Santa Clara County jury on Monday ordered Pfizer to pay $38 million to a leading San Bruno medical research firm for stealing trade secrets to develop a pain relief drug that eventually was taken off the market. Concluding a six-week trial, the Superior Court jury also found that Pfizer and a former employee of the research firm could be liable for punitive damages, which could triple the judgment and catapult the verdict beyond $100 million. Judge Gregory Ward, who presided over the trial, will eventually decide the punitive damage amount. To continue reading this article from San Jose Mercury News please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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