Intellectual Property Law

Mont. city told to release power plant documents

Posted on March 12, 2010
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In his ruling Monday, Phillips said he spent more than 12 hours going through about one-third of the documents, which included innocuous memos, some documents that already had been made public, a "power plant tour memo detailing extraordinarily privileged and trade secret materials such as phone numbers for making room reservations, dinner plans and flight itinerary," a copy of a newspaper article, and pricing information readily available on the Internet...

Roomy Khan Had 2000 Arrest, Cited Paris Hilton

Posted on March 12, 2010
By David Glovin Roomy Khan, a key government witness in the insider trading case against Raj Rajaratnam, was arrested for theft of trade secrets in 2000, a year before she was charged for insider trading, according to a court filing today by a defense lawyer...

Abhishek reveals his trade secrets

Posted on March 12, 2010
By: Devansh Patel, Bollywood Hungama Finally, Naman adds, "At the Apollo Cinema on Saturday (6th March) morning, the event in question was an acting masterclass with Abhishek, conducted by me. The actor shared several insights into his craft and the processes he goes through...

Trial of American puts spotlight on the business of 'state secrets' in China

Posted on March 08, 2010
By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service BEIJING -- Officially, the trial of American geologist Xue Feng is about state secrets. He's accused of exporting sensitive information abroad for helping his Colorado-based employer buy a database about China's oil industry...

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Federal court in Michigan dismisses state law claims in trade secrets suit

Posted on March 08, 2010
By: David Clark On February 24, 2010, in a pending lawsuit filed by polypropylene compound manufacturer RheTech, Inc., alleging that former employee Robert Joyce and his new company stole trade secrets and filed an unauthorized application for a patent on a wood-plastic composite on which Joyce had worked while at RheTech, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order dismissing all state law claims as against the defendants for lack of diversity jurisdiction...

FBI: Bristol-Myers Employee Stole Trade Secrets

Posted on March 03, 2010
North Country Gazette Shalin Jhaveri, 29, of Syracuse admitted being employed by Bristol-Myers-Squibb as a technical operations associate from November of 2007 until his termination on Feb. 2. The complaint alleges that during his employment, Jhaveri stole numerous trade secrets as part of a plan to establish a pharmaceutical firm in his native India which would compete with Bristol-Myers-Squibb in various markets around the world.

Thomas' English Muffins' Nooks-and-Crannies Knowledge to Remain Secret for Now

Posted on March 02, 2010
By EAMON MCNIFF ABC News A former Thomas' English Muffins worker described as one of seven people worldwide who know the trade secrets behind the product's "nooks and crannies" can't take his knowledge to rival baker Hostess -- at least for now, a judge has ruled...

Austin camera maker files trade secret lawsuit against competitor

Posted on March 02, 2010
Austin surveillance camera maker Advanced EDR Systems LLC has charged a former design partner with stealing ideas when it launched a competing company, Idrive Inc. Along with its partner Envision Engineering, the local company launched in 2007 sued Idrive Inc...

Hilton Trade Secret Suit Must Halt in Criminal Probe, U.S. Says

Posted on February 24, 2010
By Andrew M. Harris BUSINESSWEEK A lawsuit accusing Hilton Hotels Corp. and two executives of stealing trade secrets from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. should be halted while the U.S. probes for possible criminal wrongdoing, prosecutors said...

United States, Intellectual Property, US International Trade Commission Issues Exclusion Order in Trade Secret Case Involving Cast Steel Railway Wheels

Posted on February 24, 2010
By Gary M. Hnath On February 16, 2010, the US International Trade Commission in Washington, DC issued a Section 337 exclusion order in Cast Steel Railway Wheels, Processes for Manufacturing or Relating to Same and Certain Products Containing Same, Investigation No...

Celera says it is suing rival, former sales reps

Posted on February 23, 2010
The Associated Press Business Week Laboratory testing products maker Celera Corp. said Monday it is suing a rival and a group of former employees, alleging they stole trade secrets and illegally took Celera customers and employees. Celera said its Berkeley HeartLab business filed suit against Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc...

Agilent Technologies Wins HPLC Columns Trade Secrets Case Against Advanced Materials Technology, Inc.

Posted on February 23, 2010
Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced a favorable decision in its trade secrets and breach of contract case against Advanced Materials Technology, Inc. (AMT) and three of its employees in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Agilent filed the lawsuit in January 2008 to protect confidential and proprietary information relating to its high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technology...

Inside Apple's Secret Manufacturing Plants

Posted on February 19, 2010
Reuters Ever wonder how Apple manages to keep security so tight around products like the iPad? It all comes down to fingerprint-recognition scanners and lock-down security at the industrial forts that make its products. Here, a behind-the-scenes look at life in those high-tech fortresses...

Man Who Knows 'Nooks and Crannies' Secret Can't Work for Rival Baker, Judge Rules

Posted on February 19, 2010
Associated Press A judge in Philadelphia says an executive who knows the secrets behind the "nooks and crannies" of Thomas' English muffins can't start a job with rival baker Hostess. Bimbo Bakeries USA, the maker of Thomas' English muffins, says former vice president Chris Botticella accessed sensitive trade secrets on his last day...

How Diverse Is Silicon Valley?

Posted on February 19, 2010
BY: JOE WINDISH Not very. In fact, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Oracle and Applied Materials all argued that the race and gender of their work force is a trade secret and so cannot be released. After an 18-month Freedom of Information battle, the San Jose Mercury News won...

Auburn tech company sues Nevada County over trade secrets

Posted on February 14, 2010
By: Gloria Young Journal Staff Writer AtPac, a technology company that moved to Auburn from Grass Valley in November, is suing Nevada County over what it describes as unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information. AtPac, which had contracted with Nevada County since 1999, states in the lawsuit that Diaz, Nevada County and Aptitude "accessed, copied and used AtPac's trade secret information and copyrighted software...

Rio Tinto Employees Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets

Posted on February 14, 2010
In China, four employees of the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto have been charged with 'stealing trade secrets and receiving bribes.' The indictments--reported through state-run Xinhua news agency--are the latest in a case that has angered the Australian government, and has left Western companies worried about their operations in China...

Goldman Sachs Programmer Indicted, Allegedly Sold Trade Secrets

Posted on February 14, 2010
By Shayna Jacobs DNAinfo Reporter/Producer A Goldman Sachs computer programmer worked his way through tightly-secured firewalls to steal the company's trading secrets, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. Sergey Aleynikov, 40, allegedly "transferred substantial portions of Goldman Sachs's proprietary computer code," on his last day of work, June 5, 2009, the Manhattan U...

Security Chip That Does Encryption in PCs Hacked

Posted on February 09, 2010
By: JORDAN ROBERTSON AP Technology Writer Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks...

Former engineer sentenced to 15 years for stealing aerospace secrets for China

Posted on February 08, 2010
By: Patrick J. McDonnell A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle information and other documents for China...

RedTube, WEG Settle Suit Over Leaked Trade Secrets

Posted on February 08, 2010
By Rhett Pardon U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Nguyen signed off this morning on an order discharging claims and vacating further motions in the case that pitted two large adult brands over allegations of leaked confidential documents, poached business secrets and cybersquatting...

Berkeley HeartLab Sues Health Diagnostic Lab for 'Conspiracy, Trade Secret Violations'

Posted on February 06, 2010
By Kirell Lakhman Berkeley HeartLab, the CLIA lab unit of Celera, sued Health Diagnostic Laboratory and several former employees Jan. 14 for alleged "trade secret violations, breach of contract, conspiracy, [and] unfair competition," among other charges, according to a recent blog post...

Google complaint highlights China-based hacking; experts suggest government, military involved

Posted on February 03, 2010
By Joe Mcdonald (CP) Google's accusation that its email accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks. The hacking that angered Google Inc...

Samsung`s Tech Secrets Leaked to Hynix: Probe

Posted on February 03, 2010
Key semiconductor technologies of Samsung Electronics have been leaked en masse to rival competitor Hynix Semiconductor over the past six years through partner companies, prosecutors said yesterday. Arrested yesterday were the vice president and eight workers of Applied Materials Korea, a semiconductor equipment producer, on the charge of leaking the chip technologies and trade secrets of Samsung Electronics to Hynix...

Ex-Bristol-Myers Employee Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets - WSJ.com

Posted on February 03, 2010
By: Jared A. Favole DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A former employee of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) is being charged with stealing trade secrets from the pharmaceutical firm in an attempt to create a competing company in India, according to the federal government...

China sends Rio trade secret infringement and bribery case to prosecutors

Posted on January 27, 2010
By: Lehman Lee & Xu and Tsolmon Shar Chinese police have concluded an investigation into a detained Australian Rio Tinto Ltd executive and three colleagues arrested on charges of infringing trade secrets and bribery and sent the case to prosecutors, the Australian government and Chinese state media said last Monday...

Managing the legal risks of social technology

Posted on January 27, 2010
McCarthy Tetrault George S. Tach A different risk posed by Web 2.0 technologies involves the inadvertent disclosure of intellectual property. Consider trade secrets. The law will afford protection to an organization's trade secrets -- including its confidential information -- so long as the organization takes reasonable measures to keep the material confidential...

Bimbo Bakeries Seeks Limits on Its Departing Muffin Man

Posted on January 27, 2010
By: Tresa Baldas The National Law Journal The secret recipe for Thomas' English Muffins is putting to the test an unsettled legal doctrine: that you can sue someone out of fear that he might steal your trade secrets. In a highly watched trade secrets case in Pennsylvania, Bimbo Bakeries USA is going after former executive Chris Botticella, a 20-year employee who allegedly told the company he was retiring when he was really taking a job with rival Hostess Brands Inc...

Motorola seeks to enjoin former exec Company doesn't want phone technology to flow to Nokia

Posted on January 22, 2010
By Wailin Wong Motorola is seeking a temporary restraining order against a former executive who left the Schaumburg-based company to join Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia. Motorola filed an emergency motion Jan. 14 in Cook County Circuit Court, asking for a restraining order against David Hartsfield...

PLDT says it will not reveal interconnection 'trade secrets'

Posted on January 21, 2010
By: Lenie Lectura / Reporter TELECOM giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) said the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) can't compel it to reveal the interconnection terms it extends to other carriers. This, as it said it needs to protect its "trade secrets" because the terms are negotiated between two parties...

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