Dave Bohrer’s recent post Extending US Trade Secret Law to Reach IP Theft in China discusses what to do when your company’s Chinese joint venture makes off with your trade secrets in China. The post suggests it may be possible
Engineers from your China subsidiary just joined a competing company which has begun using your trade secrets. Can you sue in
Alarms sounded when John Absmeier, technical director of Delphi Automotive’s Silicon Valley autonomous vehicle project, announced he was leaving to join Samsung’s Silicon Valley innovation center where he would lead a self-driving car technology team. They grew louder upon Delphi’s
The question is whether it is possible to get a court to enter partial summary judgment before trial on some but not all of the
Not necessarily in California. The answer depends upon the unsettled issue whether California summary adjudication rules allow courts to dismiss some but not all of the asserted trade secrets before trial.
Trade secret claims brought by a technology company typically
The new Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) became law on May 11, 2016 and applies
Late yesterday, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing a sweeping new statute that creates a new federal civil cause of action for trade secret theft. The new statute, called the Defense of Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), can
This post summarizes Proportionality Compels Early Disclosure of Patent Damages, found here, first published by the IP Law Section, State Bar of California in connection with the March 23, 2016 seminar “Patent Disputes for our Time: New Realities, New Approaches.”
Proposed legislation creating a federal cause of action for trade secret misappropriation is on the fast track to becoming law, as described in
The significant filing fees spent by an accused infringer on a successful American Invents Act (AIA) review are not