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China-Owned Firm Charged in US With Stealing Trade Secrets
The federal government unsealed an indictment Thursday that charges a state-owned Chinese company with stealing trade secrets from a tech firm in Idaho.
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Truinject Corp. claims in a federal complaint that Nestle Skin Health stole trade secrets and violated patent on “Kate,” a model human head with a three-dimensional tracking system and user interface that shows the consequences of Botox injections.
Read moreChinese Intelligence Officer Charged With Espionage
The Justice Department said Wednesday that a Chinese intelligence officer is facing espionage charges based on accusations that he participated in a five-year conspiracy to steal trade secrets from experts at U.S. aviation and aerospace companies.
Read moreConnecticut Judiciary Sued Over Case-Management System
A software developer that built a case-management information system for the Connecticut Judicial Branch claims in court that the successor to its decade-old program uses its trade secrets.
Read moreFair Notice
In DuPont’s trade secrets beef with several Chinese iron and steel companies, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that U.S. government agents’ service of criminal summonses on the companies’ U.S. lawyers gave the companies sufficient notice of the actions to satisfy federal law.
Read moreSilicon 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.
Read moreJ. 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.
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