Intellectual Property Law

Child porn collector sentenced to 10 years

Posted on March 29, 2011
U.S. District Judge Edward Garcia also ordered Johnson to serve 10 years of supervised release following his release from prison. Johnson pleaded guilty on Sept. 21, 2010. According to court documents, images of child pornography were found on Johnson's work laptop computer after he was terminated for allegedly stealing trade secrets...

Know and tell: Companies find safe place to share secrets for mutual benefits (with video)

Posted on March 17, 2011
By Matthew Gryczan Crain's Detroit Business In a building punctuated with spires that rise like exclamation points, a team plotting the future of Amway Corp. discussed confidential research about the demographics of its Southeast Asian customers -- all within listening range of Steelcase Inc...

Tekmira Sues Alnylam, Alan Aderem Bolts to Seattle BioMed, Dendreon?s Warhorse Retires, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News

Posted on March 17, 2011
LUKE TIMMERMAN XCONOMY Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) said that David Urdal, the chief scientific officer who lived through the company's roller coaster story over the past 15 years, plans to retire at the end of 2011. Urdal, 62, says it's time for him to spend some more time with his grandchildren...

Ex-Goldman Programmer Aleynikov Declared Flight Risk, Returned to Custody

Posted on March 03, 2011
By: Don Jeffrey Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) programmer convicted of stealing the firm's trade secrets by appropriating computer source code, was returned to custody after a judge declared him a flight risk. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan revoked the bail of Aleynikov, 41, and ordered him remanded to the custody of the U...

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US court bars Motorola from divulging Huawei trade secrets to rival

Posted on March 03, 2011
Networking News CBR Staff Writer A US federal court has prohibited Motorola Solutions from divulging confidential trade secrets of Huawei Technologies to rival Nokia Siemens Networks. Motorola Solutions is selling its wireless network infrastructure business, which incorporates Huawei technology, to a joint venture of Finland's Nokia and Siemens for $1...

Theft of solar secrets leads to $8M fine

Posted on February 17, 2011
By: Kyle Alspach A Holyoke, Mass., company must pay $8.25 million in connection with the theft of solar panel manufacturing trade secrets from a Connecticut firm, according to a report in the Springfield Republican. The paper reported that a Hampshire Superior Court judge had ordered JPS Elastometrics Corp...

Eaton faces 2 new lawsuits tied to Mississippi trade secrets case

Posted on February 17, 2011
By: Alison Grant The Plain Dealer Eaton Corp. is facing two lawsuits arising from a high-stakes trade secrets case that a Mississippi court threw out after concluding Eaton tried to sway the judge overseeing the case. A lawsuit in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court says Eaton's in-house lawyers violated their duty to shareholders by participating in an outside attorney's improper contact with state Judge Bobby DeLaughter...

Lawsuit Says Google Stole Trade Secrets

Posted on February 17, 2011
By: Kevin Parrish Source : Reuters This lawsuit links back to Google's partnership with eBay and Skype, and a separate deal with VoiceOne. In 2007 Google terminated its contract with VoiceOne, stating that the latter company violated a nondisclosure agreement by revealing Google as one of its clients...

Court says old type certificates not 'trade secrets'

Posted on February 04, 2011
By Dan Namowitz Ruling a long-sought victory for aircraft restorers Brent Taylor hopes that years of court battles he waged in a bid to keep antique aircraft flying are finally over. Meanwhile, Taylor and other antique aircraft devotees are cheering a Jan...

Hudson's attorney: Lawsuit 'baseless'

Posted on February 03, 2011
The Associated Press A business owned by state Sen. Bill Hudson has been accused in a federal lawsuit of stealing trade secrets from a competitor. The Hattiesburg American reports Channel Control Merchants, owner of the Treasure Hunt and Dirt Cheap stores, filed a lawsuit this past week in U...

St. Jude Medical Reports Superior Court Ruling in Trade Secret Lawsuit Involving Its OCT Business and Volcano and Axsun Technolo

Posted on February 03, 2011
Close-Up Media via COMTEX St. Jude Medical, a global medical device company, announced that the Superior Court of Massachusetts has issued rulings in outstanding litigation between LightLab Imaging (acquired last year by St. Jude Medical), Volcano and its subsidiary Axsun Technologies...

Enduris Files Misappropriation of Trade Secrets Lawsuit

Posted on February 03, 2011
Enduris Extrusions, Inc. filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Jacksonville, Florida alleging the misappropriation of its trade secrets by Inteplast Group Limited. The Complaint alleges that Inteplast obtained Enduris's trade secret processes for making Enduris's capped cellular PVC deck board and that it is using those trade secrets to manufacture cellular PVC deckboard for CEVN Corp...

Nokia Siemens Networks: not interested in Huawei trade secrets

Posted on February 03, 2011
Nokia Siemens Networks stated that it has no interest in trade secrets by Chinese rival Huawei Technology. According to Michael Matthews, head of NSN's strategy and business development, the company has absolutely no interest in Huawei's trade secrets...

Steve Jobs makes information on his health problems another of Apple's trade secrets

Posted on January 20, 2011
By Marilynn Marchione It would be easier to gauge the current medical problems of Apple CEO Steve Jobs if he had said more about the ones he has faced in the past. Jobs, who turns 56 next month, said Monday that he would take a third leave of absence -- he didn't say how long -- to focus on his health...

Mattel Accuses MGA of Stealing Bratz Doll Idea as Second Trial Begins

Posted on January 19, 2011
By Edvard Pettersson Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie, accused rival toymaker MGA Entertainment Inc. of stealing the idea for the pouty, multiethnic Bratz doll in 2000 when it made a deal with the designer who Mattel said worked for them when he made the initial sketches for the doll...

Eaton suit over trade secret theft may be dead due to improprieties

Posted on January 19, 2011
By DAN SHINGLER A lawsuit Eaton filed against a competitor over stolen trade secrets was thrown out last month by a Mississippi circuit court that said the company allowed its attorney to influence a judge improperly. The outcome leaves Eaton preparing to appeal the ruling before the Mississippi Supreme Court in the hope that it can re-file its case...

Renault Suspects Chinese Involvement in Trade Secrets Leak

Posted on January 19, 2011
By Caroline Dobson Epoch Times Staff Renault SA, France's second-largest automaker, is having a rocky start to 2011, after detecting international industrial espionage in its operations. A company statement said this case was "misconduct that infringes Renault's ethics, [and] consciously and deliberately [endangered] the company's assets...

MediaTek to appeal trade secret leak ruling

Posted on January 09, 2011
By: Jackson Chang and Frances Huang Taiwan-based IC designer MediaTek Inc. said Wednesday it will appeal a ruling handed down by a district court in Taipei on a trade secret leak case filed by the company against a former employee. In a verdict issued Monday, the Taipei District Court sentenced a former MediaTek employee surnamed Yang to nine months in prison that could be commuted to a fine of NT$270,000 (US$9,225) for leaking information to a MediaTek competitor...

Theft of trade secrets suit filed against competing ambulance company | Southeast Texas Record

Posted on January 09, 2011
By: David Yates Southeast Texas EMS has filed suit against Cindy Bridges, a former manager who allegedly quit and formed her own ambulance service by stealing trade secrets. Court records show Bridges managed Southeast Texas EMS for eight years and was trusted with all the company's trade secrets, including medical providers, pricing information and marketing strategies...

Warm glow of the chill factor

Posted on January 05, 2011
By: Chris Tighe Snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures all over the northern hemisphere - it is a great winter for Kilfrost. One-third of the de-icing and anti-icing fluids that aircraft worldwide must use to fly safely in cold weather are made by this small, privately owned family business...

Mattel Can't Pursue Claims Against Later Bratz Dolls

Posted on January 05, 2011
By: Edvard Pettersson BUSINESSWEEK Mattel Inc. can't pursue copyright- infringement claims against MGA Entertainment Inc.'s Bratz dolls other than the first four, introduced in 2001, and two later models, a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge David O...

Judge chastises Eaton, dimisses trade secret suit in case involving

Posted on January 05, 2011
By: Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi judge has dismissed a $1 billion trade secrets lawsuit filed by power management company Eaton Corp. against a rival, Frisby Aerospace. In dismissing the lawsuit, Hinds County Circuit Judge Swan Yerger ruled that Eaton knew about and sanctioned secret actions that attorney Ed Peters took to influence another judge, according to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper...

Man charged with felony for reading his wife's e-mail to track an affair

Posted on December 27, 2010
By Kimberly P. Mitchell Detroit Free Press, via AP A Michigan man faces up to 5 years in prison for reading his wife's e-mail to find out if she was having an affair, the Detroit Free Press reports. Oakland County prosecutors used a state statute typically used to prosecute crimes like identity theft or stealing trade secrets, the newspaper says...

Trade secrets: inmate health-care contracts kept confidential

Posted on December 19, 2010
By Jennifer Chaussee Hundreds of millions of dollars are involved in a new state contract for prison health care, but there's no telling now exactly much money California is spending under the agreement, which takes effect in just weeks. Even lawmakers are kept in the dark...

Two engineers convicted for stealing Goodyear trade secrets

Posted on December 19, 2010
By IBTimes Reporter On May 30 and 31, 2007, the Wyko engineers - Robert and Howley - traveled to a Goodyear tire plant to service equipment supplied by their company to Goodyear. While they were there, they secretly took seven photos of a Goodyear swab down device without the knowledge or permission of Goodyear...

Ex-Wyco worker convicted of stealing trade secrets blames former employers

Posted on December 11, 2010
By: Ed Marcum Howley and Clark Alan Roberts, 47, both former engineers for Greenback-based Wyko, were convicted in U.S. District Court in Knoxville on Thursday on all 10 counts of an indictment alleging they conspired to steal and make use of trade secrets by taking photographs of special tire-making equipment at a Goodyear plant in Kansas in May 2007...

Programmer Convicted of Stealing Trade Secrets from Goldman Sachs

Posted on December 11, 2010
By: DANNY KING A former Goldman Sachs (GSF) computer programmer has been sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in prison for allegedly stealing trade secrets and property from the company. Sergey Aleynikov, 40, is scheduled to begin his prison sentence in March, the U...

New Jersey man sentenced in trade secret theft

Posted on December 11, 2010
By: The Associated Press A New Jersey man who was a chemist at a suburban Chicago paint factory has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets. David Yen Lee of Jersey City, N.J., pleaded guilty in September to stealing formulas and other proprietary information valued up to $20 million from Valspar Corp...

Wyko engineers face trial

Posted on December 04, 2010
By: Ed Marcum Federal prosecutors painted two tire company engineers as industrial thieves, stealing trade secrets from Goodyear in a desperate bid to produce tire-making machinery for a Chinese company on short notice. Defense attorneys portrayed Clark Alan Roberts, 47, and Sean Edward Howley, 39, as hardworking family men who may have made a mistake by photographing equipment at a Topeka, Kan...

China charges Australian with embezzlement: Canberra

Posted on December 04, 2010
The Australian boss of a travel company based in southern China has been charged with embezzlement, foreign ministry officials in Canberra said Thursday, stressing their "strong interest" in his case. Et-China chief executive Matthew Ng was formally charged on Tuesday, a foreign office spokeswoman told AFP, two weeks after he was detained in the southern city of Guangzhou on suspicion of "misappropriating company assets"...

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