JD Supra Law

APRIL 16, 2024

One of the biggest threats to modern corporations involves departing employees who take confidential business information (CBI) and/or trade secrets with them prior to or upon their departure. Indeed, the misappropriation of trade secrets and CBI can cost companies millions of dollars in legal fees, reputational harm, and lost revenue.

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The IPKat

JULY 13, 2021

During the opening remarks of this meeting, Ocado’s solicitor stated that ‘this meeting was a continuation of the confidential and without prejudice discussions between Ocado and AutoStore and that any US law discussions were to be governed by rule 408 of the [US Federal] rules of evidence [FRE 408]. Ocado appealed.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2024

the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and other products, recently filed a lawsuit in a California state court against a former vice president for allegedly taking confidential information from Meta to his new employer, an artificial intelligence company. Meta Platforms Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Why that’s the case isn’t mentioned in the High Court order, and the same applies to other confidential aspects of the case to prevent circumvention. The IP addresses are unblocked at the conclusion of each Blocking Window , the durations of which are confidential. Fortunately, not everything is shrouded in darkness.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 10, 2025

24-1504 (JRT/DTS), the franchisee alleged that the franchisor breached the franchise agreement and misappropriated the franchisees confidential and trade-secret customer. In the case, T&T Mgmt., Choice Hotels Intl, Inc., By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a portion of the Confidential Business Information rule (CBI) in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulations as the panel of judges found it unlawfully allows for the unwanted disclosure of chemical manufacturers' trade secrets. By: Williams Mullen

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

Given that most biotech deals are subject to confidential alternative dispute resolution, it is unusual for disputes over those deals to be resolved publicly, much less resolved in a way that allows attorneys to incorporate their teachings into daily drafting and negotiations.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

Any errors in it were either extremely minor or were made deliberately to protect a confidential source. She further claims that, by publicly correcting those masking errors, The Atlantic and The Washington Post breached the confidentiality of her source. Unanswered Questions.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

the US District Court for the District of Delaware decided an open question regarding pre-filing investigation and attorney fees under Title 35 of the US Code, Section 285, and offers of confidential access (OCAs) under the Hatch-Waxman framework. Bionpharma Inc., By: DLA Piper

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 16, 2024

On August 14, Judge Corrigan for the Middle District of Florida, in Properties of the Villages vs. FTC, found that the FTC did not have the authority to enter its planned Noncompete Rule, and entered an order granting an injunction as to the plaintiff only. Like the Texas federal court in Ryan, the court declined to grant a nationwide injunction.

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Confidentiality 82

JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2025

In some cases, the buyer wants to assure itself of certain highly confidential and sensitive aspects of the targets operations and assets. Due diligence is a necessary part of any M&A transaction. This process can be an exhaustive deep dive into the target companys history.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A Michigan bankruptcy court held that a debtor-franchisee seeking to reject a franchise agreement for an auto repair center could not reject either a stand-alone confidentiality agreement with the franchisor or the non-compete and confidentiality provisions included within the franchise agreement.

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Confidentiality 125

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Many such examples have piled up throughout the years.

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 20, 2022

Mr. Matlock personally prepared the waffles using his confidential recipe, which were later delivered to Oprah by Eastern Standard. Eastern Standard claims that it has never sold a single waffle using the Burgundian confidential recipe, and that it has no plans to do so.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 16, 2025

The question for the Board of Appeal was whether the user manual had been made available to the public before the priority date without an obligation of confidentiality, and how to assess the standard of proof required given that the evidence was neither fully within the opponent's control nor equally accessible to both parties.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Another type of procedural thing that may come up in that discussion is the protective order governing confidentiality or attorney’s eyes only, and whether the standard protective order needs to be modified. The judges do not participate in this call.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Settlements: The Risk Calculation It’s hard to directly compare default judgment awards to settlement amounts, as settlements are typically confidential. In settlement agreements, defendants can negotiate terms, including confidentiality clauses and non-admission of liability—two major benefits that a public judgment lacks.

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Patently-O

JUNE 6, 2024

Neuropublic provided the firm with a detailed, confidential 21-page “Proposed Invention Disclosure” describing this technology. Ladas & Parry then allegedly sent this entire confidential disclosure to a third-party firm in India called PatentManiac, without informing Neuropublic’s or obtaining consent.

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Confidentiality Law IP Invention 113

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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Confidentiality Cease and Desist Government Reporting 122

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

” After the parties got together, an agreement was reached to confidentially disclose basic subscriber information related to 64 Discord User IDs. Discord was clearly hesitant to cooperate but, faced with a motion to compel, it eventually chose to do so.

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Privacy Copyright Infringement Copyright Confidentiality 120

TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2022

MarkMonitor believes that the requested information is confidential and asks the court to keep it out of the public’s view. While it is totally understandable that MarkMonitor and the record labels don’t want to share proprietary or confidential information in public, singling out TorrentFreak is completely unnecessary.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

FitzMark, LLC , a logistics brokerage firm in Indianapolis, Indiana , has filed a lawsuit against former employee Micah Adkins and Koola Logistics, LLC , alleging breaches of confidentiality , misappropriation of trade secrets , and interference with business relationships.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Businesses can prevent third parties from misusing their valuable and commercially sensitive business information and trade secrets through contracts and the common law in Canada. By: Smart & Biggar

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And unfortunately, some continue making news for AI disasters such as disclosing confidential information and citing nonexistent case law. Most are at least exploring AI and considering where it may fit, if anywhere, in their law practice.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

Confidential Settlement. The full details of the settlement agreement are confidential. “Pursuant to the confidential settlement agreement, Plaintiffs have requested and Defendant KeepSolid has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent traffic,” the joint dismissal stipulation reads.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 22, 2022

However, now the sides have reached a confidential settlement that brings the case to an end. The judge dismissed the first iteration of the lawsuit but allowed them to refile. That too was largely dismissed, with the rest of the case slowly moving forward. 2: Shenseea & Interscope Records Hit With $10 Million Lawsuit Over “Lick”.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

However, now it is being reported that the two sides have reached a confidential settlement in the matter. Aldi briefly removed its version of the cake but began selling them again in May after making some design changes. As such, both sides have asked for the case to be dismissed, something that the judge has granted.

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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. The Lawsuit.

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IPilogue

MAY 17, 2022

Trade secrets require elements such as: value (economic/industrial), that it is kept secret, and that there are reasonable measures in place to keep it confidential. Once disclosed, the trade secret loses its necessary quality of confidence that makes it confidential and valuable to a business.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A quick glance at last week – Madras HC accepts a US District Court’s Letter Rogatory to furnish confidential information, a look at Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters vs Ross Intelligence and many more. We also have the initiation of our attempt to bring IP conversations to wider audiences through multilingual writing!

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The judge’s full findings won’t be public for a couple of weeks, to enable both sides to redact confidential business information. ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara said SharkNinja infringed two of four asserted iRobot patents, according to a notice posted last week on the agency’s electronic docket.

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Confidentiality Patent Infringement Business Patent 137

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Judge Pym also reviewed Strike 3’s offer but concluded that this isn’t sufficient to protect the defendant’s privacy and confidentiality rights. In essence, the court prioritizes the privacy and confidentiality rights of the defendant over Strike 3’s piracy concerns. — A copy of U.S.

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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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JD Supra Law

JUNE 17, 2024

As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) implements “the final rule” banning non-competes, businesses with sensitive intellectual property (IP) must look to alternative measures to safeguard it.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A confidential settlement was reached in October 2020 but it’s claimed that the defendant then launched Digital UniCorn Media and another service called Altered Carbon. The financial aspect of the settlement is confidential but whatever the amount, the studios now want to call in the debt. It later disappeared.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Image by storyset on Freepik Recently, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued an interim injunction in a lawsuit concerning trade secrets and confidential information. The first, is if there is a contract between both parties that contains a specific obligation to protect confidential information. 1 who then shared it with defendant no.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

In simple terms, trade secrets are Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) granted on confidential or sensitive info, which may be licensed or sold. Generally, any confidential piece of business info that provides a competitive edge to a company or firm and isn’t known to others may be safeguarded as a trade secret.

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