Intellectual Property Law

The Potency Of The Investigative Power Of Congress

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Editor interviews John F. Sopko , Partner in Akin Gump's Washington, DC, office, who has 20 years of experience in conducting congressional investigations in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Editor: Can trade secrets be protected? What about the attorney-client privilege? Sopko: The courts have ruled that Congress does not have to recognize these privileges, but they can be protected, particularly if you know how to negotiate with the committee members and their staff...

Judge fines business in trade secret dispute

Posted on April 01, 2009
By: Stephen Gurr Saying he believed a Gainesville tax preparation company willfully misappropriated trade secrets of H&R Block and ignored a court order not to use them, a judge fined Paramount Tax Services more than $12,000 Tuesday for contempt of court...

NBA All-Star, Shaquille O'Neal, Endorses Enlyten, LLC's Bi-Layered Nutraceutical Strip Products Manufactured by HealthSport, Inc.

Posted on March 31, 2009
By: Mike Sclafani HealthSport, Inc. HealthSport, Inc. (OTCBB:HSPO) announced today that Shaquille O'Neal, perennial NBA All-Star and named one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of All Time, has reached an agreement with Enlyten, LLC, becoming its leading -- and most celebrated -- spokesman endorsing Enlyten's bi-layered nutraceutical film strips...

Arlington Heights man accused of stealing trade secrets

Posted on March 29, 2009
By Kristen Kridel | Tribune reporter An Arlington Heights man was charged Friday with the theft of trade secrets from the Wheeling company where he worked, authorities said. David Yen Lee, 52, of the 400 block of West Rand Road, was arrested at his home Thursday and ordered held without bail Friday in federal court in Chicago, the FBI said...

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Ill. chemist charged with stealing trade secrets

Posted on March 27, 2009
Associated Press A suburban Chicago chemist is charged with stealing trade secrets from a Minneapolis-based paint manufacturer where he worked and planning to take them to a job with a foreign rival. David Yen Lee of Arlington Heights was arrested Thursday after FBI agents found trade secrets on a thumb drive in his luggage as he prepared to catch a flight to Shanghai...

Clinton's State Department ducks extraterrestrial/UFO disclosure

Posted on March 26, 2009
By: Alfred Webre Thus far, the U.S. appears to be a lone holdout among major UFO/ET-knowledgeable nations on any updated release of its secret files related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and extraterrestrial life. Many reasons have been postulated for this refusal by United States military intelligence to release its secret UFO and extraterrestrial-related files...

9/11 Families Urge Judge to Release Aviation Security Evidence on Terrorist Attacks

Posted on March 26, 2009
PRNewswire Calling for truth, rather than secrecy, to be the legacy of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, attorneys for a group of 9/11 family members are presenting oral arguments today urging U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to release more than one hundred deposition transcripts and over a million pages of evidence relating to the aviation security failures resulting in the worst terrorist attack in American history...

Granite claims former employee was leaking trade secrets for several years

Posted on March 24, 2009
By: Jon Chesto The Patriot Ledger Telecom alleges employee leaks cost it hundreds of thousands of dollars. A fast-growing Quincy telecom firm has sued one of its former employees, alleging that the sales representative leaked confidential client data costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue...

Stallone Maintains Proof in the Pudding

Posted on March 23, 2009
By: BILL HETHERMAN A judge's removal of Sylvester Stallone and another man from a lawsuit alleging they misappropriated trade secrets in marketing a unique pudding for bodybuilders was a recipe for reversal, an appellate panel has ruled. The three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously agreed that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F...

Chinese high-tech spy case inches closer to trial

Posted on March 22, 2009
By Ellen Messmer Software engineer Hanjuan Jin is accused of stealing thousands of confidential documents from Motorola Did software engineer Hanjuan Jin, who worked at Motorola for about eight years, steal thousands of confidential and proprietary technical documents to share with competitor Lemko and the People's Republic of China? Jin, in her late 30s, says she didn't...

Psystar makes small update to Mac clone, Apple fumes

Posted on March 21, 2009
By Jeff Smykil Psystar has updated its line of Mac clones, completely disregarding the pending lawsuit by Apple for violations of the Mac OS X EULA. Still, the new addition offers more power for the same price as a Mac mini. The introduction of the updated model certainly sends a message to Apple--one that would cause our mouths to be washed out with soap if we repeated...

Man charged in theft of trade secrets from Livonia company

Posted on March 20, 2009
A former Brighton man was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, theft of trade secrets from a Livonia company and false statements. Thomas McKinney, 38, of Spring, Texas, was arrested near Houston by federal agents, said U...

Governor signs open records law

Posted on March 20, 2009
By CHET BROKAW Associated Press Gov. Mike Rounds announced Thursday he has signed into law a measure that presumes government documents in South Dakota are public unless there's a good reason to keep them secret. The new law starts with a presumption that records are open to public inspection...

FDA moves to plug trade secret leaks

Posted on March 20, 2009
UPI.com U.S. Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Frank Torti is warning employees against leaking companies' trade secrets, a memo indicates. Torti's memo, which was obtained by the In Vivo blog, outlined prohibitions against leaking commercial information that "can result in disciplinary sanctions and/or individual criminal liability," The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday...

State's higher taxes on 'alcopops' are fizzling out

Posted on March 16, 2009
By: Evan Halper Under a new state law, beverages such as Smirnoff Ice are supposed to be taxed as liquor. But manufacturers say they've changed their recipes to continue fitting into the lower-taxed beer category. Beverage makers admit they aren't paying the new taxes...

Israel's government abuses Free Trade Agreement with US

Posted on March 16, 2009
By Ray Hanania The US has FTAs with 20 foreign nations, including six added in 2006, Bahrain, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Morocco, and Nicaragua. Israel lobbied for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement with the US in 1984 and it was approved in 1985...

EI honors innovative employees

Posted on March 15, 2009
BY MY-LY NGUYEN Pressconnects Endicott Interconnect Technologies announced this week that it celebrated its advancements in technological innovation with an awards ceremony Feb. 20 at The McKinley in Endicott. EI honored 43 employees for patent applications filed, U...

Two Engineers Arraigned For Theft Of Trade Secrets From Goodyear

Posted on March 15, 2009
By Tim Wilson Two Wyko Tire Technology engineers are facing up to 150 years in prison after allegedly scamming their way into a Goodyear tire factory and secretly photographing its proprietary equipment. According to a UPI report, in early 2007 Wyko secured a contract to supply the Haohau South China Guilin Rubber Co...

Merrill's Bonuses and the Ice Cream Defense

Posted on March 15, 2009
By: Cyrus Sanati and Peter Edmonston Just how much of a secret are Merrill Lynch's bonus numbers? In 1979, the New York State Supreme Court ruled that Carvel did not need to turn its secret formula over to the New York State attorney general's office, which was investigating restraint-of-trade allegations at Carvel...

Company awarded $17.5 million.

Posted on March 12, 2009
By: Jan Biles A Manhattan electronics design and manufacturing company has been awarded nearly $17.5 million in actual and punitive damages in a lawsuit alleging breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent concealment and misappropriation of trade secrets after a deal with a French company to make a propeller deicing system dissolved...

Atrua Adds Trade Secret Theft by Authentec to Lawsuit

Posted on March 12, 2009
By: Marc Ostrowski Authentec Theft Disclosed in Lawsuit's Legal Discovery Process. Atrua Technologies announced today that it has asked the United States District Court to issue an injunction against Authentec, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUTH) due to their misappropriation of Atrua's trade secrets from facilities of prospective customers on multiple occasions...

GT US Department of Justice: Two Indicted for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

Posted on March 09, 2009
Trading Markets An indictment was unsealed today charging Clark Alan Roberts, 46, and Sean Edward Howley, 38, both engineers with Wyko Tire Technology Inc., located in Greenback, Tenn., with conspiring to steal trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and scheming to defraud Goodyear of confidential and proprietary information, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Rita M...

Zrii Sues Lifevantage Corporation

Posted on March 08, 2009
Zrii, LLC announced today that on February 27, 2009, Zrii, LLC filed a lawsuit against Lifevantage Corporation (a publicly traded company headquartered in San Diego, CA) for allegedly inducing and conspiring with the former Zrii executive management team and some of its leading Independent Executives to breach their contracts with Zrii, to join Lifevantage as its employees or distributors, and to utilize trade secrets of Zrii for the benefit of Lifevantage...

East Tennessee engineers accused of stealing trade secrets

Posted on March 07, 2009
The Associated Press Two Tennessee engineers have been charged with stealing trade secrets from Goodyear Tire Co. to help design manufacturing equipment for a Chinese tire company. Clark Alan Roberts and Sean Edward Howley pleaded not guilty Friday before a federal magistrate in Knoxville to an unsealed 12-count indictment charging trade secret theft, wire fraud and conspiracy...

Fed Refuses to Release Bank Data, Insists on Secrecy

Posted on March 05, 2009

Iostar lawsuit is shot down

Posted on March 04, 2009

Enterprise to buy Advantage assets out of bankruptcy

Posted on March 04, 2009

Who's Really Being Propped Up in the A.I.G. Bailout?

Posted on March 02, 2009

Company claims former employees stole trade secrets; files lawsuit

Posted on March 02, 2009

Software firm sues ex-workers

Posted on February 28, 2009

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