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Womble Carlyle lawyers Press Millen and Todd Sullivan follow trade secrets law.

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Former DuPont Employee Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Trade Secret Theft

Posted on March 18, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that former DuPont employee Michael Mitchell was sentenced a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia to 18 months imprisonment, a restitution of $14,500 to DuPont and $30,000 in fine for theft of trade secrets and obstruction of justice...

Chinese Trial Involving Rio Tinto Execs to Commence Monday, March 22

Posted on March 17, 2010
BusinessWeek is reporting that four Rio Tinto Group employees, including the company?s iron-ore chief in China, will stand trial in Shanghai on March 22, almost nine months after being arrested on suspicion of bribery and stealing state secrets.Australian Stern Hu will be tried with his colleagues by the Shanghai No...

AON Sues Marsh & McLennan For Employee Raid and Trade Secrets Misappropriation

Posted on March 16, 2010
BusinessWeek is reporting that a unit of Aon Corp., the world?s largest insurance broker, sued its closest rival, accusing Marsh & McLennan Cos. of seeking to steal trade secrets, poach clients and ?rob Aon of its key employees.?Aon Risk Services Northeast Inc...

Former Toyota In-House Attorney Stole Documents He Claims Demonstrate Bad Conduct by the Auto Company

Posted on March 12, 2010
CNN is reporting that when former in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from his top post at Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his nearly $4 million severance package.He took some 6,000 internal documents, including memos and e-mails potentially damaging to his former employer...

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Austin Surveillance Camera Maker Says "Hey, You Ripped Us Off When We Weren't Looking"

Posted on March 03, 2010
The AustinBusinessJournal is reporting that Austin surveillance camera maker Advanced EDR Systems LLC has charged a former design partner with stealing ideas when it launched a competing company, Idrive Inc.Along with its partner Envision Engineering, the local company launched in 2007 sued Idrive Inc...

Home Depot Trade Secrets Thief Sentenced to Four Months

Posted on February 28, 2010
A Forsyth County, North Carolina man has been sentenced in connection with federal charges that he stole trade secrets from his former employer, Home Depot.Guillermo Martinez, 47, was sentenced Wednesday to four months in federal prison and four months home confinement...

Average Trade Secrets Data Theft Costs $2 Million

Posted on February 23, 2010
From Business Week, a story relaying a report from Symantec that says its survey of 2,100 information-technology executives worldwide indicates that 75% of respondents reported cyber attacks last year. Most were aimed at stealing a company?s intellectual property, such as product designs...

Federal Prosecutors in Starwood v. Hilton Criminal Investigation Ask Federal Civil Judge to Stop the Proceedings for Six Months

Posted on February 22, 2010
We've been reporting about this high-level trade secret theft case, see here: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2010/01/amended-complaint-in-starwood-hotels-v.html.BusinessWeek is reporting that in a unique procedural move, the federal prosecutors investigating this matter as a crime have intervened and asked the federal judge assigned to the civil lawsuit to "stay" or suspend the civil proceeding...

Departing Employee from Bimbo Bakeries Told by Court to Cool His Jets

Posted on February 18, 2010
We first reported about this case here: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2010/01/bimbo-says-key-employee-threatens.htmlLaw.com is reporting that in his 37-page opinion in Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc. v. Botticella, United States District Judge R. Barclay Surrick granted a preliminary injunction, ruling that Chris Botticella, a former senior vice president at Bimbo, cannot start to work for Hostess Inc...

Federal Judge Considers Whether Photographs of Goodyear Equipment Should Be Sealed from Public View

Posted on February 17, 2010
It is common for documents and photographs and evidence to be filed "under seal" in court proceedings involving trade secrets matters. Reason is that the secrecy of the information or thing needs to be insured, even though the secrecy of that information or thing is actually being litigated in a court usually open to all...

More on Investment Banking Algorithms ? UBS Style

Posted on February 15, 2010
Following hard on the heels of the report concerning the indictment of the former Goldman Sachs trader, a brief report from Here is the City (a financial markets news aggregator), saying that Traders magazine is reporting that an arbitration case against three former UBS employees alleged to have stolen an algorithmic trading code has ruled in favor of the former employees...

Former Goldman Sachs Computer Programmer Indicted for Theft of Trade Secrets

Posted on February 12, 2010
Updating this story from last July, the New York Times reports that former Goldman Sachs computer programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, has been indicted on charges that he stole trade secrets, specifically the proprietary software that Goldman Sachs uses to make rapid-fire trades in the financial markets...

Former Boeing Employee, Dongfan Chung, Sentenced to More than 15 Years for Economic Espionage

Posted on February 09, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the U.S. space shuttle that prosecutors say he intended to share with China.The case against Dongfan "Greg" Chung was the U...

Potential Problems in Trying Goodyear Trade Secrets Case

Posted on February 09, 2010
Following up on our earlier posting here, there?s a good story in the Knoxville News Sentinel about the difficulties of trying corporate espionage cases in court without revealing trade secrets. The article outlines the conceptual clash between the philosophy of open and public courtrooms (embodied, after all, in our Constitution) and the problem that victims of trade secrets theft won?t come forward if they fear that their trade secrets will be exposed at trial...

Liberty Mutual Sues Nine Departed Employees and Their New Employer for Trade Secret Theft

Posted on February 08, 2010
The online magazine, Insurance Journal, is reporting that Liberty Mutual Insurance is suing nine former employees and their new employer, Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings, alleging they have plotted to steal professional liability insurance business from its Liberty International Underwriters unit...

Korean Authorities Arrest Many in Alleged Theft and Transfer of Samsung's Trade Secrets to Hynix

Posted on February 05, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the world's top producers of computer memory chips are embroiled in an alleged case of industrial espionage after South Korean prosecutors indicted 18 people over alleged technology theft.Prosecutors said Thursday those involved ? including employees of U...

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Employee Charged with Extensive Trade Secret Theft

Posted on February 04, 2010
ABC News is reporting that Shalin Jhaveri, 29, of Syracuse, was charged in U.S. District Court with stealing trade secrets and proprietary information from the New York-based company while taking part in a management training program. He was fired Tuesday...

Britain's MI5 Warns UK Businessmen: Your Firms Are Under Attack from China

Posted on February 02, 2010
We are linking you to a fascinating report from TimesOnline about the leaking of MI5 warnings regarding doing business in China.The piece starts off with: "The security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up ?honeytraps? in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets...

PNC Financial Services Sues Former Employees and New Employer, Huntington Bank

Posted on February 01, 2010
Crain's Cleveland Business is reporting that PNC Financial Services has sued 10 departed employees and their new employer, Huntington National Bank, allegedly for stealing "plans for developing and marketing products and services, customer lists, customer investment information and fee arrangements...

Ammoniated Beef - It's Trade Secrets are What's for Dinner

Posted on January 29, 2010
In late December 2009 the New York Times published an article regarding the injection of beef with ammonia to remove potentially deadly E. coli bacteria from the beef. You can find that article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?_r=1...

Christian Science Monitor: China Involved in Oil and Gas Cyber-Attack?

Posted on January 26, 2010
Yesterday CBS http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/, today it's The Christian Science Monitor. In this well-written piece, Mark Clayton reports on the oil and gas industry data breaches that are being investigated by the FBI. It is believed, but not proven, that the cyber-hacking originated in China...

CBS News: Chinese Are Targeting American Trade Secrets

Posted on January 25, 2010
CBS News has published a report that is supported by oh-so-many blog posts on this blog: the Chinese appear to be committed to high-level industrial espionage targeting the secrets of successful companies throughout the world, particularly those in the United States...

Motorola Sues Departed Executive Asserting Inevitable Misappropriation of Trade Secret Theory

Posted on January 22, 2010
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Motorola has sued former mobile phone executive, David Hartsfield, as a response to his resignation and new employment with Nokia, a Finnish mobile phone manufacturer. Motorola sued the case in Cook County state court and Mr...

Bimbo Says Key Employee Threatens the Secrets of Making Thomas' English Muffins

Posted on January 21, 2010
Bimbo Bakeries USA is the name of the entity that makes and distributes Thomas' bagels and english muffins as well as Entenmann's baked products. Chris Botticella has worked for Bimbo or its predecessors for approximately 20 years. Bimbo says Botticella knows all the recipes and manufacturing secrets of these products and says he is "one of less than ten people in the world who with full knowledge of how to produce Thomas' English Muffins...

Amended Complaint in Starwood Hotels v. Hilton Hotels Corporate Espionage and Trade Secrets Case - Doh!!!

Posted on January 15, 2010
We first covered the Starwood Hotels v. Hilton Hotels trade secret war here: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/04/starwood-hotels-v-hilton-hotels-trade.htmlThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that on Thursday Starwood Hotels filed an amended complaint in U...

Contempt, Jail, and Appeals in ClearOne Trade Secret Matter

Posted on January 13, 2010
We'll start with a definition: contemnor - one who commits an act in contempt of a court order, standard or instruction.Now, having established that, we'd also respecfully suggest that one does not want the following words written about them by a judge (click on link above to the read the entire order): "Frankly, given the history of this litigation, the contemnors?s intentional failure to appear to be cross-examined about their conclusory statements, and the court?s findingthat both Mr...

Money Management Firm Says Former Executive, Jeffrey Gunlach, Stole Trade Secrets and Left Porn and Pot

Posted on January 11, 2010
The Los Angeles Times is reporting the bitter split between Los Angeles money management giant TCW Group and former executive Jeffrey Gundlach turned nastier Thursday, as TCW sued Gundlach, alleging that he stole confidential information and used it to launch a rival firm...

Medical Board Sues Test Preparation Company for Theft of Trade Secrets - The Physician Certification Test Questions!

Posted on January 07, 2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that the American Board of Internal Medicine announced yesterday that it has filed a suit against a North Jersey company that provided test preparation for doctors.The suit, alleging copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets, accuses the company of stealing test questions with help from doctors taking the certification tests...

"Standing" to Bring Trade Secrets Case to Trial? California Appellate Court Reverses in Nasty, Brutish Marvell Semiconductor Case

Posted on January 04, 2010
We initially blogged about this case way back here: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2008/04/marvell-case-screwing-up-voicemail.html. This was, you might recall, the wacky case in which the general counsel of Marvell Semiconductor Inc. and two of his colleagues phoned the legal chief of a rival company, Jasmine Networks Inc...

South Carolina Man Charged With Trade Secret Theft from Company He Last Worked With 8 Years Ago

Posted on December 30, 2009
The Sun News from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is reporting that Thomas Flynn, 60, who was a plant manager at Metglas for more than 20 years beginning in 1975, was arrested last week and charged with misappropriation of trade secret information with intent to injure...

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