Silicon Valley Company Sues Walmart for $2 Billion
A Silicon Valley company sued Walmart for $2 billion Wednesday, claiming the world’s largest retailer stole its trade secrets on “freshness management” technology for reducing food waste.
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J. Craig Venter
The Human Longevity Institute sued the J. Craig Venter Institute in federal court, claiming its eponymous founder stole trade secrets from it while he was its CEO, and used them to tortiously interfere with its business.
Read moreEx-Apple Worker Charged in Scheme to Take Self-Driving Secrets to China
A former Apple employee faces 10 years in prison on charges he stole self-driving car technology from his employer to benefit a Chinese company.
Read moreEx-Tesla Employee Accused of Stealing, Leaking Data
Tesla claims in court that a former employee illegally accessed computers at the electric car maker’s battery factory in Nevada and stole proprietary information before leaking some of it to the press.
Read moreFitbit Employees Charged With Having Stolen Trade Secrets
U.S. prosecutors have charged six current and former employees of San Francisco-based Fitbit, Inc. with possessing trade secrets stolen from rival company Jawbone.
Read moreGoogle Dodges Architect’s Claims of Stolen Inventions
A federal judge dismissed racketeering claims brought by an inventor who claimed Google used nondisclosure agreements to rip off his trade secrets for its own profit.
Read moreService Complicates DuPont’s Trade Secrets Beef Against Chinese Companies
A Ninth Circuit panel indicated Wednesday that it may block the federal government from serving criminal summonses on a group of Chinese iron and steel companies through their U.S. lawyers, for trying to pilfer trade secrets from DuPont.
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Chinese ride-sharing company UCar must amend its claims that former employees stole trade secrets, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreRide-Hails Can’t Hide Behind Trade Secrets in Public Records Spat
The city of Seattle might have to hand over data from ride-hail companies like Lyft to a private citizen as part of a records request, even though the records may contain the companies’ trade secrets, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreUber Managers Sue Former Employee for Defamation
Four Uber security managers are suing former Uber employee Richard Jacobs for claiming they stole trade secrets and spied on competitors in a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed in federal court Friday.
Read moreFacebook Settles Long-Running Data Center Suit
Facebook settled a trade secrets case mid-trial on Monday in order to focus on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pivotal testimony before Congress regarding a growing data-mining scandal.
Read moreFacebook Trade Secret Trial Begins First Day
On a day where Facebook defended itself in the continued fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company quietly launched its defense against accusations of stealing trade secrets to build an advanced data center near the Arctic Circle.
Read moreDating App Competitor Claims Tinder Stole Its Trade Secrets
Swipe dating app Bumble is suing the parent of rival app Tinder for $400 million, claiming it deviously took trade secrets under the guise of wanting to invest in the company, then turning around and suing Bumble for allegedly ripping off its app.
Read moreNinth Circuit Hears Case Against VR Company
A panel of the Ninth Circuit indicated on Thursday it will revive virtual-reality company Total Recall’s lawsuit accusing Facebook-owned Oculus VR of stealing its design for a virtual-reality display.
Read moreWorker Mobility & Trade Secrets Still at Odds After Waymo-Uber War
The absence of a verdict in the Waymo-Uber showdown, and what could have become precedence on how to balance an engineer’s right to work for a competitor with a company’s right to safeguard its trade secrets, means legal questions remain.
Read moreWaymo-Uber Showdown Ends in Surprise Midtrial Settlement
In a surprise move on what was supposed to be the fifth day of a month-long trial over trade secrets and autonomous vehicles, Waymo announced Friday it had reached a settlement with Uber.
Read moreWaymo Struggles to Prove It Kept Trade Secrets Secure
On the fourth day of its trial against ride-hail giant Uber, autonomous car developer Waymo struggled to prove a trove of files stolen by a former engineer contained trade secrets for building the vehicles.
Read moreJury Hears of Happier Times for Uber & Waymo Parent Google
During his second day of testimony in the Waymo-Uber trade secrets trial, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said the ride-hailing company and Google had a “little brother, big brother” relationship that soured after Uber launched its self-driving car venture with Carnegie Mellon University.
Read moreOusted Uber Executive Testifies on Day Two of Waymo-Uber Trial
On the second day of a trade-secrets war between Waymo and Uber, ousted Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick said he discussed buying a nonexistent company from Waymo’s lead self-driving engineer to speed his company’s development of the cars.
Read moreWaymo-Uber War Over Driverless Technology Starts With Theft Claim
Lawyers for Uber tried to convince a jury on the first day of a long-awaited trial on accusations it stole rival Waymo’s driverless car technology that Waymo’s motive for suing was to keep “its biggest competitor” from developing driverless cars for the ride-hailing market.
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