Intellectual Property Law

Google and P&G trade secrets

Posted on November 19, 2008
Written by Rosalie Marshall Google and Procter and Gamble today announced they have been swapping staff to increase their competitive edge. In what the firms have codenamed the "P&G Google Exchange", three Google employees were temporarily sent to P&G and 20 P&G employees were sent in the opposite direction...

New Zealand: Trade Secret Due Diligence

Posted on November 19, 2008
This pierce comes from "New Zealand: Intellectual Property Due Diligence" by Simon Rowell. The author specifically refers to trade secret due diligence which is reproduced bellow: Trade Secret The purpose of trade secret due diligence is to determine the existence of valuable trade secrets, determine how well those secrets have been kept and identify any potential leaks of the secret...

DHEC keeping secrets

Posted on November 19, 2008
By SAMMY FRETWELL and JOHN MONK The State Landfill operator Chem-Nuclear had persuaded regulators to withhold many of the files, arguing the information included trade secrets. Without the records, Guild lost a court case that could have forced tougher disposal practices at the 37-year-old landfill...

Executives Charged in Trade Secret Theft

Posted on November 18, 2008
Written By: FBI Sang Ho Shin, Dong Sik Kim and Yeon Hee Lee are residents and nationals of South Korea and were employed as executives of SK Chemicals, a multinational chemical company located in Seoul, South Korea. The Indictment charges that from in or about late 2001 through in or about January 2008, Shin, Kim and Lee, conspired with Kyung J...

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Obstacles to Licensing know how and trade secrets

Posted on November 18, 2008
The following pierce comes from International Trade in Technology - Licensing of Know-How and Trade Secrets by Hans Verhulst, Consultant, Centre for Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI), The Netherlands. "Transfer of know how and trade secrets is not restricted to "technical" know how...

Information Warfare Article Index

Posted on November 17, 2008
Strategyworld Squeezing The Chokepoint November 17, 2008: After years of efforts by Internet security firms and volunteer "white hat" (the good guys) hackers, governments are forcing ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to stop providing essential access for Internet criminals...

Government should be open and information should flow freely

Posted on November 16, 2008
By Howard Owens The Batavian Often you hear people talk about how government should be run like a business, and it is a nice metaphor for reminding people that cost controls are important, and the books should be balanced, but the phrase masks a very important reality: Government is not a business...

INVISTA Sues Rhodia in Delaware for Theft of Trade Secrets

Posted on November 15, 2008
BUSINESS WIRE On Nov. 6, following an Oct. 30 jurisdictional ruling by the federal court, INVISTA amended that New York federal lawsuit to focus on DuPont's misappropriation of intellectual property, unfair competition, and breach of contracts, and then filed this lawsuit in Delaware against Rhodia...

Papermaster countersues IBM in effort to join Apple

Posted on November 15, 2008
By Jim Dalrymple, Macworld.com Papermaster contends that IBM's noncompetition agreement precludes him from working for any Business Enterprise or any major competitor of IBM. The lawsuit argues that since IBM business enterprise services and Apple's business is the design, manufacturing and marketing of consumer electronic products, the two are not major competitors...

Halliburton: Patenting Patent Trolling to Block Patent Trolls

Posted on November 13, 2008
By Dan Slater Myhvold, perhaps the most written-about Law Blog subject who doesn't own a law degree, is the former chief technology officer for Microsoft who's quietly amassed a trove of 20,000-plus patents and patent applications. His firm, Intellectual Ventures, is using its clout to press tech giants into costly patent-licensing deals -- making it, in other words, one of the world's largest patent trolls...

DuPont sues ex-partner Invista over trade secrets

Posted on November 13, 2008
In the latest salvo in a legal battle between the two companies in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, DuPont said Invista broke a Patent and Technical Information Agreement under which Invista is not allowed to use DuPont technology to make nylon engineering resins for several years...

Uganda: Trade Secrets Protection bill passed

Posted on November 13, 2008
Uganda Business News In a debate on the Trade Secrets Protection bill passed into law by Parliament October 28, Masaka municipality Member of Parliament John Baptist Kawanga decried the transaction of commercial business based on outdated legislations...

Richard K. NIEMI, DBA as Richard K. Niemi Design and Engineering Services and RKN Technology, L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. NHK SPRING CO., LTD.; NHK International, Ltd.; and New Mather Metals, Inc.

Posted on November 11, 2008
An engineering designer of method of manufacturing stabilizer bars for automobiles brought actions against automobile component producer, and its parent corporation alleging misappropriation of trade secret, breach of contract, and promissory estoppel...

Ex-Intel worker indicted on $1B trade secrets theft Working for rival AMD, Biswamohan Pani accused of stealing trade secrets

Posted on November 11, 2008
Network World Jon Brodkin An ex-Intel employee accused of stealing $1 billion worth of trade secrets and using them to help rival AMD was indicted in Massachusetts Wednesday, according to news reports. Biswamohan Pani, 33, of Worcester, Mass., was a design engineer at Intel's Hudson, Mass...

Yahoo's transforms data mining with open-source Hadoop

Posted on November 11, 2008
By: Elise Ackerman The software, called Hadoop, is part of Yahoo's massive computing grid and is transforming the way Yahoo and corporate giants such as IBM extract meaning from enormous streams of data. Universities are also using the code - an open-source version of software Google relies on for daily operation - to train a new generation of computer scientists and engineers...

Residents voice concerns

Posted on November 11, 2008
By: Loren Genson Gazette Staff Writer Upset citizens appeal to City Council over red-light cameras In a standing-room-only courtroom, more than 60 area residents voiced disapproval Monday with Chillicothe City Council's decision to install red-light cameras...

Thousands of Tucson-area DUI cases may get boot.

Posted on November 10, 2008
By: A.J. FLICK Intoxilyzer 8000 may be ruled unreliable. According to CMI Inc. documents filed by prosecutors, eight states, three police departments and one other governmental agency use the Intoxilyzer 8000. It is approved for use in six other states and three other governmental agencies...

Do's and Dont's of Confidentialty Agreements

Posted on November 10, 2008
By Todd Wilson Many growing businesses face the problem of having ideas that will give them a leg up on the competition or new products that will revolutionize their industries but lack the financial or intellectual resources to, without the assistance of partners, bring those ideas to fruition or to bring the products to market...

Ex-Intel worker indicted on $1B trade secrets theft

Posted on November 07, 2008
By Jon Brodkin An ex-Intel employee accused of stealing $1 billion worth of trade secrets and using them to help rival AMD was indicted in Massachusetts Wednesday, according to news reports. Biswamohan Pani, 33, of Worcester, Mass., was a design engineer at Intel's Hudson, Mass...

Datalogic Scanning Brings Another Lawsuit against Metrologic

Posted on November 07, 2008
EUGENE, Ore., Nov 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) Datalogic Scanning, Inc. announces that in August 2008 it commenced a lawsuit against Metrologic Instruments, Inc., a subsidiary of Honeywell International, in the United States District Courtfor the District of Oregon located in Eugene, Oregon, in which Datalogic alleges that Metrologic misappropriated trade secrets belonging to Datalogic...

ClearOne Awarded Multimillion-Dollar Damages by Jury in Federal Trade Secret Misappropriation Case

Posted on November 07, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov 07, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ A jury trial was held in federal court in Utah in connection with the lawsuit (the "Intellectual Property Case") initiated by ClearOne against Biamp Systems Corporation ("Biamp"); WideBand Solutions, Inc...

Trade Secrets Protection in India and 'Sui Generis' Trade Secret Law

Posted on November 05, 2008
Extracts from "India: Protection of Trade Secret" by Manisha Singh Nair Trade secrets are protected in India either through contract law or through the equitable doctrine of breach of confidentiality. It is common to insert clauses of confidential nature in a technology transfer or other license agreement to maintain the confidential nature of the subject matter, not only during the employment period of the employees and contractors but also after its termination, though for a fixed period of time...

Drug Industry Trade Secrets: Speaking Fees, Education Subsidies

Posted on November 05, 2008
Posted by Jacob Goldstein Vermont is one of the only states in the nation that requires drug makers to report their payments to doctors and other health care providers. But the state's law has a provision (or loophole, depending on your point of view) that allows companies to flag their payments as "trade secrets" that the state can't disclose to the public...

Arbitrator backs Fisker over Tesla in green car spat

Posted on November 04, 2008
By John Gittelsohn In April, San Carlos-based Tesla sued Fisker, an affiliated design company Fisker Coachbuild LLC, and the founders of the company, Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler, alleging that the defendants stole trade secrets and performed inferior work to gain the edge in the race to introduce an electric-powered sports car...

ANTITRUST AND TRADE SECRETS: THE U.S. AND THE EU APPROACH

Posted on November 04, 2008
Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal Katarzyna A. Czapracka Abstract This paper examines the divergent approaches to application of antitrust principles to trade secrets in the EU and in the U.S. The U.S. antitrust enforcers recognize the need to protect trade secrets and treat them as a type of intellectual property...

Enterprises stepping up fight against trade secrets theft

Posted on November 04, 2008
InfoWorld Daily October 28, 2008 Jeremy Kirk FBI veteran says the payoffs for stealing trade secrets are high and the risks of getting caught are low. Enterprises are stepping up efforts to counter spying operations that aim to steal their trade secrets, according to a former U...

FAIVELEY TRANSPORT MALMO AB, Petitioner v. WABTEC CORPORATION, Respondent.

Posted on November 04, 2008
A Swedish company manufacturing and supplying railway systems and services brought trade secret misappropriation action against American company, with which it had had a licensing agreement, seeking to preliminarily enjoin American company from undertaking certain commercial activities...

The Surprising Virtues of Treating Trade Secrets as IP Rights

Posted on November 03, 2008
Mark A. Lemley Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 358 Trade secret law is a puzzle. Courts and scholars have struggled for over a century to figure out why we protect trade secrets. The puzzle is not in understanding what trade secret law covers; there seems to be widespread agreement on the basic contours of the law...

Global Crime Case: Cybercrime and Counterfeiting

Posted on November 03, 2008
By Foltz, Joan E The Futurist Much of the modern organized crimes are very similar to the old. The most significant transformation from the streets to cyberspace has enlarged the territory of individuals and organized groups. Enabled by the Internet, criminals can operate in cyberspace where less governance, a transnational stage, and a multitude of transactions to monitor complicate surveillance and enforcement...

Sharing Your Global Supply Chain Knowledge -- The Right Way

Posted on November 02, 2008
By Matthew B. Myers Knowledge sharing between supply chain partners has more upsides than downsides, provided that the right kind of knowledge goes back and forth. In global supply chains, managers consistently have struggled with sharing valuable knowledge with buyers and suppliers across borders...

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