eBay has reportedly been sued by EPRT Ventures for $3.8 million. The claim appears to be not only that eBay supposedly infringes on certain patents, but that eBay misappropriated trade secrets disclos...
Each time a new technology rolls out, legal decisions follow. Social media is the latest. Remember the cyberstalker? How about Facebook's lawsuit against Power.com? Or the class action against Face...
Lawsuits over trade secrets typically involve things like customer lists, formulas, manufacturing processes, etc. Can the location of houses for use as movie sets be a trade secret? Yep. Well, at leas...
Exactly one year ago, I wrote a post entitled "An Ounce of Prevention... " for my prior law firm's Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog (which I had created only days earlier). In the post, I recommended...
If you're not a patent lawyer, you probably haven't given much thought to the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Bilski v. Kappos, the decision that clarifies what the test is for determining whe...
About one year after trying unsuccessfully to enforce a noncompetetition agreement against high level former executive David Johnson to prevent him from going to Dell, IBM is now seeking to prevent an...
Back in January, I wrote about Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc. having sued a former executive who left for competitor Hostess Brands Inc. (The story appears on the Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog, which I had...
You followed the rules. You did as you were told. You didn’t take any documents from your former employer when you left your job. Excellent! But, what about your former employer’s trade secre...
In most states, trade secrets and confidential information (among certain other things) are legitimate business interests that may be protected through a noncompetition agreement (as well as through...
The explosion of the importance of trade secrets is at this point old news. The new news, however, is the rise of use of noncompetes and other restrictive covenants (for example, nondisclosure agree...