An appeals court in New Jersey ruled that a man should have access to the trade secrets of TrueAllele, a probabilistic genotyping software that was used to link his DNA to a murder and other crimes, finding that it is “imperitive” to afford a meaningful examination of the source code, which could contain bugs, glitches or defects.
Read moreTwo Illinois residents accuse the Discovery Channel, a production company and others of violating a nondisclosure agreement and misappropriating 24 years of research to authenticate the last photograph of President Abraham Lincoln, taken on his deathbed. The network intends to air “Undiscovered: The Lost Lincoln,” based on plaintiffs’ work, on Oct. 4.
Read moreThe 7th Circuit upheld a $140 million compensatory-damages award granted to health care software company Epic Systems in its suit against Tata Consultancy services for unlawfully accessing and using confidential information and trade secrets. However, the court also found the $280 million punitive damages award was constitutionally excessive.
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Two Chinese hackers were indicted Tuesday on charges that they targeted U.S. researchers developing a vaccine for Covid-19 as part of a global campaign backed by Beijing intelligence.
Read moreA federal court in California denied technology company Eko’s motion for a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets and patent infringement suit against Quibi over the short-form video streaming company’s “Turnstyle” feature, which allows videos to flip between vertical and horizontal framing.
Read moreA federal judge found a Chinese national and university professor guilty Friday of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and conspiracy, following a four-day bench trial in San Jose, California.
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A case involving allegations of engineers absconding to China with disk drives full of autonomous vehicle technology trade secrets has come to an end after all parties agreed to a settlement Friday.
Read moreAnthony Levandowski, a former engineer who worked on autonomous vehicles, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft of trade secrets, ending a trial that pitted two of the largest technology companies — Google and Uber — against each other.
Read moreA Chinese national was sentenced to two years in federal prison Thursday after admitting to stealing $1 billion worth of battery technology trade secrets while working for Phillips 66.
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Prosecutors unsealed a superseding federal indictment Thursday that puts the Chinese tech company Huawei at the center of a conspiracy to steal trade secrets and to do business with the globally sanctioned countries Iran and North Korea.
Read moreChina denied involvement in any hacking activities on Tuesday after the United States indicted four members of the Chinese military for allegedly breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of nearly half of U.S. citizens.
Read moreVGXI sued Aldevron in federal court, claiming it stole its patented methods of making gene therapies for Zika and Ebola viruses and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.
Read moreA Chinese national pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he stole trade secrets from Monsanto, which prosecutors say is part of a pattern of Beijing encouraging the theft of U.S. intellectual property.
Read moreA federal judge tipped his hand on how he views a case involving corporate espionage in the hypercompetitive industry of self-driving cars. In short, he thinks something foul is afoot.
Read moreA dispute between two beer giants took an unexpected turn after Anheuser-Busch filed a counterclaim accusing a MillerCoors employee of stealing its recipes, brewing processes and other trade secrets using contacts and inside information gathered when he worked for Anheuser-Busch.
Read moreAs companies jockey for position in the race to be the first to bring a fully capable autonomous-vehicle software program to market, two contestants battled it out in San Jose federal court on Thursday.
Read moreA federal grand jury in California has indicted the former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle initiative on charges of stealing Google technology and siphoning it to the ride-hail giant, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read morePlanner 5D claims in a federal complaint that Princeton University crawled through thousands of webpages hosting 5D’s data on three-dimensional objects, then used the data in articles on the technology and helped Facebook host a contest using the data to develop virtual-reality technology for the Oculus brand.
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