The IPKat

JULY 13, 2021

Before the third settlement negotiation meeting AutoStore’s solicitor sent a document (‘the Document’) as advance materials. AutoStore responded that the confidential and without privilege character did not apply to the US proceeding. Their English solicitors were negotiating settlement.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

said Tuesday that it was investigating a longtime employee who it believes downloaded thousands of documents containing confidential information, some of which is related to the pharmaceutical giant's COVID-19 vaccine, according to a suit filed in California federal court. Pfizer Inc.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 29, 2023

Addressing protective order violations, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit largely vacated a district court’s sanctions order. The Court explained that sanctions must comply with due process, barring parties from future litigation should be treated as a “death-penalty” sanction and damages calculations require specific factfinding.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the consequentials hearing judgment [2023] EWHC 138 , the Judge dealt with (1) royalty payments; (2) costs; (3) confidentiality; and (4) permission to appeal. Of the most interesting to this Kat was the treatment of costs (well, some of them), confidentiality and permission to appeal.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 11, 2023

On May 31, 2023, a Harris County Texas District Court jury found a telecom company acted in bad faith by filing a $23 million trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against a rival where the underlying technology was found to not actually be a trade secret. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The trouble is, you have internal documents relevant to the trial that you really don’t want the other side to see. You run a business and you want to run a case against a competitor. If they see it, they might found out about a corner of the market that they have overlooked, a technology

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In most patent cases, the parties jointly agree to a system limiting the publication of confidential case information and typically file a stipulated motion for protective order seeking the a judicial order requiring the parties to comply. US11147246 and US11033007.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

According to court documents, Valcrum has developed a reputation for innovative hubcaps designed for 8,000-16,000-pound trailer axles. Additionally, Valcrum contends that Dexter breached a Mutual Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA) by allegedly using confidential information, such as Valcrum’s customer list, to its advantage.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 28, 2022

As of this morning, there is still no reference to the statement, even though it is a public document having been tabled in the House of Commons. Parties who provide certain types of sensitive commercial information to the Commission, including trade secrets, may designate this information as confidential.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Waymo alleged that its former manager, Anthony Levandowski, had organized a competing company while still at Waymo, and before leaving had downloaded 14,000 confidential documents. It was February 2017 when Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit, sued Uber in what would become the biggest trade secret case of the century.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

The application seeking the interim relief was filed by UTIITSL who has been an authorized service provider since 2003 for processing PAN and related services like issuance of documents such as Aadhar Card, Voter ID, driving license, etc.

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Trading Secrets

AUGUST 17, 2022

Specifically, the rule provides that “[n]o person may take any action to impede an individual from communicating directly with the Commission staff about a possible securities law violation, including enforcing, or threatening to enforce, a confidentiality agreement. with respect to such communications.”.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The case shows that documents with quite limited distribution, such as operating manuals sent to ~10 customers, may still meet the public accessibility standard for prior art depending on the circumstances of disclosure and expectations around further dissemination. On appeal, the Federal Circuit against the patentee. Opinion by Judge Reyna.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Littler Mendelson PC and a former firm attorney have agreed to pause the firm's Texas state lawsuit alleging she stole confidential documents, with the reason for hitting the brakes on the hard-fought case unclear.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Board noted that filing an entire document or motion under seal should be “very rare” and that only a limited number of documents filed by RLP were actually identified as confidential. The TTAB granted RLP 20 days to file redacted, public versions of all confidential submissions.

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IPilogue

APRIL 19, 2022

This act disregarded Marino’s confidentiality and non-solicitation contractual obligations to Cartier. Cartier claims that this was a breach of her employment agreement, as she was to return “any and all documents” containing “Confidential Information and Trade Secrets” that she obtained in connection with her employment.

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IP Law 360

MAY 31, 2023

Abbott Laboratories has accused a former nutrition scientist of taking thousands of confidential documents with him when he left the company, claiming that he's now hawking those trade secrets to Abbott's competitors, according to a suit filed in Illinois federal court.

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Trading Secrets

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Employment Agreement contained post-employment covenants, including a non-disclosure clause by which Soudant agreed not to use or disclose any Boston Beer confidential information during or after his employment. The accessed files include market plans, sales performance measures, pricing guides, budgets, and brand documents.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2023

Former Proskauer Rose LLP Chief Operating Officer Jonathan O'Brien asked a New York federal judge on Tuesday to throw out trade secret misappropriation and conversion claims from a suit accusing him of stealing Proskauer's confidential information, arguing that the firm has not shown that he used the secret documents he allegedly copied.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2022

The documents in question are now shielded and the anti-piracy company would like it to keep it that way, to prevent adversaries from gathering knowledge. ” The transcript isn’t the only document MarkMonitor would like to keep away from the public. MarkMonitor Wants to Keep Anti-Piracy Secrets Safe.

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IPilogue

MARCH 8, 2023

In a privacy breach, legal privilege permits an organization to obtain legal advice about the incident without having to worry that such communications and related documents will be disclosed to others. LifeLabs provided some of the documents but asserted litigation or solicitor-client privilege over others.

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2022

The Wisconsin case was subject to a confidentiality agreement/order. Lee wanted to send some confidential case documents to Hecht. But, before doing so, first had Hecht sign the confidentiality agreement. ” I.e., confidential disclosures in Static v. Leader could only be used for Static v. ” Slip Op.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 22, 2024

The former director of government sales for Merz Pharmaceuticals LLC has struck back in North Carolina's business court against allegations that he took trade secrets to a rival, claiming he didn't sign any confidentiality agreements concerning documents he needed for legal purposes.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Federal Circuit refused Thursday to make a Delaware federal judge nix his probe into who is funding a patent owner's infringement litigation against Buzzfeed, Bloomberg and other media companies over content streaming technology, finding that a writ of mandamus is not the only pathway to protect confidential documents.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In this case, the nuance is expressed in the context of the balance between the ‘right of information’ of the participants to a public tender and the possible presence of ‘trade secrets’ in the bidding documentation. Based on this, the request for access to the documentation was denied by the contracting authority.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Employment Agreement contained post-employment covenants, including a non-disclosure clause by which Soudant agreed not to use or disclose any Boston Beer confidential information during or after his employment. The accessed files include market plans, sales performance measures, pricing guides, budgets, and brand documents.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

After the hearing, the court ordered production of documents ranging from communications between Mr. Hall, Mavexar, and IP Edge to the formation of Nimitz, its assets, its potential scope of liability from obtaining the patent, and the potential settlement of various cases. The district court then issued a memorandum outlining its concerns.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

Confidentiality Agreement After a couple of weeks of relative calm, the parties agreed on a confidentiality order and from there, nothing but silence until December 2022. A status report revealed that DISH had served requests for production on DataCamp and that the company would engage in “rolling” document production.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 8, 2022

Increasingly, congressional investigators seek out private parties' confidential documents from the federal agencies that regulate them — and because Congress is uniquely empowered to override nondisclosure protections surrounding nonpublic information, companies must understand the rules and risks involved, say attorneys at Covington.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

has sued a former operations manager for allegedly stealing more than 10,000 confidential documents for his new employer, a direct rival that it has separately litigated against. Sterile laboratory maker AES Clean Technology Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 9, 2022

For many trade-secret litigants and their counsel, the solution lies in simply drafting and agreeing to a protective order governing the treatment of any ‘confidential’ material. After all, both parties likely want their sensitive documents protected from disclosure. Not necessarily, at least not in the Fifth Circuit.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

A Non-Disclosure Agreement (abbreviated as NDA) is a legal document signed to safeguard the previously-mentioned sensitive information. What Should an NDA Incorporate Within its Documentation? Therefore, many companies are way too vigilant about protecting their IP assets.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

s complaint alleging two former executives violated non-compete and trade secret contracts by taking confidential documents from company computers shortly before joining a rival company, ruling that the men had not shown the allegations would prejudice them.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A national environmental remediation firm and two of its subsidiaries are seeking an injunction in Colorado federal court to stop a former manager based in the state from using their trade secrets, alleging the "disloyal insider" stole hundreds of confidential company documents to start a rival venture and underbid them on major contracts.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In November 2021, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sued a 'soon to be former' employee for allegedly uploading more than 12,000 files, including 'confidential Pfizer documents' to a personal Google Drive account and to personal devices. By: K&L Gates LLP

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

Kok, accessed more than 7,000 Motorola documents prior to joining Chinese rival company, Hytera Communications Corporation Limited (“Hytera Corp.”). assembled a digital two-way radio business largely deploying Motorola’s research and development, such as source code and confidential technical documents. Kok, and G.S Hytera Corp.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 12, 2022

Reversing district court’s contempt finding and award of sanctions and attorney’s fees for alleged violation of protective order by disclosing confidential documents to counsel for a defendant in a separate action. LEADER ACCESSORIES LLC [OPINION] (2021-2303, 6/28/22) (Dyk, Reyna, Taranto) - Dyk, J. By: WilmerHale

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