Intellectual Property Law

Brothers vs. brother: Firm says trade secrets its own

Posted on July 10, 2008
By Barrett Newkirk ANDERSON -- A dispute over corporate intellectual property involving three brothers has become a courtroom food fight. Indianapolis-based Darlington Farms and co-owner Phil Hockemeyer filed a lawsuit against Rubicon Foods LLC, a company founded by Hockemeyer's younger brothers, Steve and Todd, and based at the Flagship Enterprise Center...

Transfer No Gross Trademark!

Posted on July 10, 2008
Article by Kenneth E. Crowell 10 July 2008 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a summary judgment in favor of accused trade-secret infringer Cadbury Stani (Stani) after determining that the license in suit was ambiguous and inapposite for determination on summary judgment...

Former HP VP Charged With Stealing IBM Trade Secrets

Posted on July 10, 2008
MarketPlace News July 11, 2008 ? Vol.30 Issue 28 A federal grand jury has charged Atul Malhotra, a former vice president at HP, with allegedly stealing trade secrets from IBM, his former employer, and distributing them. Malhotra worked at IBM from November 1997 through April 2006, and in March 2006 he asked for and received confidential information on IBM's calibration metrics...

Retail ATMs | BREAKING: Judge grants preliminary injunction against ATM consultant Global Cash Systems | ATM Marketplace

Posted on July 10, 2008
10 Jul 2008 GULFPORT, Miss. -- A judge in Mississippi has granted Triton System's request for a preliminary injunction against Global Cash Services, a newly created ATM consultancy that's been working with ATM manufacturer GRG Banking Equipment Co. Ltd...

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Editorial - The Government and Your Laptop - Editorial - NYTimes.com

Posted on July 10, 2008
EDITORIAL The Department of Homeland Security is routinely searching laptops at airports when Americans re-enter the United States from abroad. The government then pores over or copies the laptop's contents -- including financial records, medical data and e-mail messages...

Protecting your trade secrets

Posted on July 09, 2008
TradeSecretNotebook.pdf Called A brief guide to preserving intellectual capital this might be a good primer to share with new employees who might be working with trade secrets.

Trade Secrets: General Guidelines Every Employee Should Know

Posted on July 09, 2008
EFaragi IP Litigation Reporter 1.30.07.pdf Introduction When most people think of trade secrets, they imagine Coca-Cola's famous recipe locked in a heavily secured vault or the names of Colonel Sanders' 11 herbs and spices dancing in the heads of a select few KFC executives...

The Morning News: Business : Wal-Mart Wins Permanent Gag Order Against Former Worker

Posted on July 09, 2008
Kimberly Morrison Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has won a permanent gag order and agreed to drop its lawsuit against a fired security employee who detailed to media what he said were the retailer's surveillance practices. A Benton County judge Monday granted Wal-Mart a permanent injunction against Bruce Gabbard, a technician who alleged that a manager pressured him to find security leaks...

Innovative Solutions gains in intellectual property case

Posted on July 08, 2008
07/08/2008 UWCHLAN -- A U.S. District Court recently issued several rulings in favor of Innovative Solutions & Support Inc. in a two-year-old intellectual property case. The U.S. District Court for Tennessee's western district awarded Innovative Solutions $17...

Charity sues charity for theft of donor list

Posted on July 08, 2008
By Michelle Massey, Texarkana Bureau MARSHALL - Two employees and a board member of the Longview charity American Syringomyelia Alliance Project ("ASAP") recently resigned and started a new nonprofit with the same mission. ASAP believes they took more than experience to the new nonprofit and asserts one or more of the former staff members took a copy of ASAP's database of donors...

Microsoft tells EU court ?899 million fine too steep

Posted on July 08, 2008
By Emil Protalinski The Microsoft-European Union antitrust dust-up has been going on for quite some time. The saga continues, as Microsoft has submitted a filing to the EU Court of First Instance detailing why the most recent fine imposed by the EU, ?899 million ($1...

MediaSentry denies being investigators to avoid licensing

Posted on July 07, 2008
7 July 2008 12:18 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus As the RIAA's campaign of file sharing lawsuits against customers has gone on a number of interesting legal questions have been raised about how investigations are being conducted. MediaSentry is responsible for finding and identifying computers sharing copyrighted music on behalf of RIAA attorneys...

Award increased to IS&S in trade-secrets case

Posted on July 07, 2008
Philadelphia Business Journal Monday, July 7, 2008 Innovations Solutions & Support Inc. said Monday that a federal court has increased the amount awarded to it in a trade-secret misappropriation case to more than $23 million from more than $6 million...

IBM Buys Its Way Out of Antitrust Trouble

Posted on July 05, 2008
By: Maureen O'Gara Jul. 4, 2008 06:30 AM IBM Has Gotten Out from Under A Threat to its Multibillion-dollar Mainframe Monopoly The fireworks over Armonk this 4th of July are going to be a bit brighter and more awesome because - by the flick of a checkbook - IBM has gotten out from under a threat to its precious multibillion-dollar mainframe monopoly...

Google Vs. Viacom - Federal Judge Rules 50-50

Posted on July 05, 2008
by Daisy Sarma - July 3, 2008 The ongoing legal battle between Google and Viacom over YouTube has resulted in a 50-50 situation for Google. The bad side of the deal for Google is that it has, as per the order of a federal judge, to turn over all YouTube user histories to Viacom; the good side is its search code and IP is safe...

En Pointe Files Suit in Employee Dispute

Posted on July 05, 2008
By DEBORAH CROWE Los Angeles Business Journal Staff IT services provider En Pointe Technologies Inc. is countersuing a Toronto competitor that claims En Pointe is hiring away its employees to gain access to its trade secrets. Gardena-based En Pointe said Thursday that it is seeking a court declaration that Softchoice Corp...

ASIP Holds "Patents of Inventions and Trade Secrets" Course

Posted on July 05, 2008
pecial to ag-IP-news Agency AMMAN - The Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP) announced on Wednesday that the registration for the third course of the Arab Certified Intellectual Property Practitioner (ACIPP) program entitled "Patents of Inventions and Trade Secrets" has started...

Viacom tries to stop trade secrets leaking

Posted on July 05, 2008
Fatima Schroeder A Cape Town company that has been developing an instant mobile messaging service to rival the popular Mxit, is applying for a High Court order to stop a former employee moving to a group that owns 30 percent of the Mxit business, fearing he may divulge secret information...

YouTube: Trade secrets are safe but your information isn't

Posted on July 05, 2008
A judge has ordered YouTube to hand over information about every video watched including logins and user IP addresses to Viacom, which is suing the video sharing service for $1billion. YouTube won't be forced to hand over its source code to Viacom because a US judge has ruled that it is a trade secret, but the same judge has ruled that the video sharing site must turn over the record of every video watched including user names and IP addresses to the media giant...

Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company Granted Trade Secret Status for Flagship Product Xianling Gubao

Posted on July 04, 2008
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Company (NYSE: TCM) ("Tongjitang" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated and profitable specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on the development, manufacturing, marketing and selling of modernized traditional Chinese medicine ("TCM") in China, announced that the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets of the People's Republic of China have granted the Company national trade secret status for its flagship product, Xianling Gubao ("XLGB")...

Random Search Stops $600 Million In Trade Secrets Bound For China

Posted on July 04, 2008
CommwebNews.com The feds have indicated a software engineer who was flying to China with confidential technical documents, a thumb drive, four external hard drives, 29 recordable compact discs, and a videotape. A former software engineer for a telecommunications company based near Chicago was indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets worth an estimated $600 million and trying to take the documents to China...

SILICON VALLEY ENGINEER SENTENCED FOR ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE

Posted on July 04, 2008
A U.S. federal judge has sentenced a former Silicon Valley software engineer to two years in federal prison for stealing military technology and trying to sell it to the Chinese government, the first defendant to be convicted under the anti-espionage provisions of a 12-year-old federal law...

D. Ma : court would not award double or treble damages against defendants for their

Posted on July 04, 2008
Background: Complaint and counterclaim were filed relating to the control of a small Spanish-language bi-weekly newspaper. After defendants withdrew from litigation and agreed to turn over entire control of paper to plaintiffs, jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs...

EX-HP EXEC WON'T CONTEST TRADE-SECRET THEFT CHARGES

Posted on July 04, 2008
A former Hewlett-Packard executive has agreed not to contest federal charges that he stole trade secrets from his previous employer, IBM, and attempted to pass the information to colleagues at HP. Atul Malhotra was a vice president for printing services at IBM when he obtained confidential pricing information in March 2006, according to charges filed Friday in San Jose's U...

Google Sued For Trade Secret Theft

Posted on July 04, 2008
July 4, 2008 A small company called LimitNone, dealing in the development of software products, has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging theft of trade secrets. The suit has been filed in the Cook County Circuit Court of Illinois. LimitNone are seeking damages to the tune of $1 billion...

Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM trade secrets

Posted on July 04, 2008
By Sharon Gaudin July 2, 2008 (Computerworld) A former Hewlett-Packard Co. vice president was indicted by a federal grand jury last week for allegedly stealing trade secrets from his former employer, IBM. Atul Malhotra is charged with allegedly e-mailing confidential IBM information to two senior vice presidents at HP...

YouTube: Trade secrets are safe but your information isn't

Posted on July 04, 2008
Kevin Anderson YouTube won't be forced to hand over its source code to Viacom because a US judge has ruled that it is a trade secret, but the same judge has ruled that the video sharing site must turn over the record of every video watched including user names and IP addresses to the media giant...

it is popular in some quarters to blast big tobacco or big oil or big pharma, arrangements for delayed publication of research that may have commercial value is commonplace at all universities, for it is an essential step to protect patent rights.

Posted on June 29, 2008
6/23/08 Richmond Times-Dispatch A16 Philip Morris-VCU Deal Is Not Unusual HENRY A. McGEE JR. Editor, Times-Dispatch: Criticism of VCU has appeared in the press recently concerning arrangements for publication of results from university research that has been supported by Philip Morris...

Debtor's liability on trade secrets claim and fixing minimum amount of that iability, was neither "contingent" nor "unliquidated"

Posted on June 29, 2008
Background: Motion was filed to dismiss debtor's Chapter 12 case, on ground that at least 50% of debtor's noncontingent, liquidated debt did not arise out of farming operation, as required for debtor to qualify as "family farmer" eligible for Chapter 12 relief...

Federal appeals court affirms dismissal of copyright and trade secret misappropriation claims against Oprah Winfrey for concept behind "Oprah's Big Give" TV program

Posted on June 28, 2008
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Tim Nelson Tracy v. Winfrey, et al., No. 07-1630 (1st Cir. June 11, 2008). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of Darlene Tracy's copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation suit against Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Productions, and ABC Television...

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