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Not All Documents Labeled Confidential Actually Are: Texas Jury Finds $23M Trade Secret Case Was Brought in Bad Faith

Trading Secrets

d/b/a Liquid Networx (“Liquid Networx”) and company executives Travis Wood and Robert Short, alleging they misappropriated trade secrets concerning its online platform for handling contracts named Telibid. Teligistics alleged the Liquid Networx “sanitized” its RFP by changing the names of parties to secure contracts for financial gain.

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Not All Documents Labeled Confidential Actually Are: Texas Jury Finds $23M Trade Secret Case Was Brought in Bad Faith

LexBlog IP

d/b/a Liquid Networx (“Liquid Networx”) and company executives Travis Wood and Robert Short, alleging they misappropriated trade secrets concerning its online platform for handling contracts named Telibid. 2021) (“[B]usiness information is not necessarily a trade secret simply because it is confidential.”).

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Types of Intellectual Property Contracts

Intepat

Intellectual property rights may be established, protected, or granted to another party by contracts or agreements. Considering that the subject matter is so complex, the law regarding contracts is usually handled by lawyers who specialize in it.

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Mr Justice Zacaroli finds manufacturing software copyright infringed and confidence breached in ex-employee fight

The IPKat

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. US proceedings were filed by PQ against CyberMetrics in October 2017, Mr Aughton was deposed in October 2021 and the proceedings then settled on confidential terms.

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Indian government denies access to Covid 19 vaccine collaboration agreements

SpicyIP

The United States and the United Kingdom that collaborated with private companies to develop COVID-19 vaccines have released copies of their research and collaboration agreements under their Freedom of Information (FOI) laws with redactions. In fact, public disclosure of COVID-19 vaccine agreements is the global norm.

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Crafting a Comprehensive Trade Secret Strategy

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Generally, trade secrets refer to confidential information that confers a competitive advantage on its holder by virtue of being unknown by others. Generally, reasonable measures should be “adequate under the circumstances,” but go further than those used for ordinary confidential information. What Are Trade Secrets?

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Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names

TorrentFreak

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. The injunction and associated documents can be found here 1 , 2 , 3 , (pdf). It later disappeared.