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., Solutions Group Inc., Sean O'Neil, Stephan Dragomir, Randy Aldridge and Colin Cairns in the case.

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By EAMON MCNIFF
ABC News

A former Thomas' English Muffins worker described as one of seven people worldwide who know the trade secrets behind the product's "nooks and crannies" can't take his knowledge to rival baker Hostess -- at least for now, a judge has ruled.

A Philadelphia judge has ruled a man can't take his knowledge of the secret process for Thomas' English Muffins to a new job with the baker Hostess.

Chris Botticella, a former senior vice president for Bimbo Foods, the maker of Thomas' English Muffins, has been embroiled in a lawsuit by his former employer after he accepted a job working for Hostess. The stakes are substantial because Thomas' English Muffins brings in about $500 million annually, according to court documents filed by Bimbo.

North Country Gazette

Shalin Jhaveri, 29, of Syracuse admitted being employed by Bristol-Myers-Squibb as a technical operations associate from November of 2007 until his termination on Feb. 2.

The complaint alleges that during his employment, Jhaveri stole numerous trade secrets as part of a plan to establish a pharmaceutical firm in his native India which would compete with Bristol-Myers-Squibb in various markets around the world.

By: David Clark

On February 24, 2010, in a pending lawsuit filed by polypropylene compound manufacturer RheTech, Inc., alleging that former employee Robert Joyce and his new company stole trade secrets and filed an unauthorized application for a patent on a wood-plastic composite on which Joyce had worked while at RheTech, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order dismissing all state law claims as against the defendants for lack of diversity jurisdiction.

RheTech alleged a federal claim for false advertising in violation of 15 U.S.C. §1125(a)(1)(A) and (B), and state law claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and quiet title to invention.

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By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service

BEIJING -- Officially, the trial of American geologist Xue Feng is about state secrets. He's accused of exporting sensitive information abroad for helping his Colorado-based employer buy a database about China's oil industry.

But Xue's attorneys say Chinese authorities pursuing the case have another motivation: commercial competition.

When Xue bought the surveys and maps for use in his company's research reports, the information was openly available. It was only after the fact that Chinese authorities classified it a "state secret."

By: Devansh Patel, Bollywood Hungama

Finally, Naman adds, "At the Apollo Cinema on Saturday (6th March) morning, the event in question was an acting masterclass with Abhishek, conducted by me.

The actor shared several insights into his craft and the processes he goes through. What struck the sold out audience and indeed Rez Kempton (star of ToF closing night film Life Goes On, who helped me put the questions together) was Abhishek's refreshing honesty in revealing his trade secrets.

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By David Glovin

Roomy Khan, a key government witness in the insider trading case against Raj Rajaratnam, was arrested for theft of trade secrets in 2000, a year before she was charged for insider trading, according to a court filing today by a defense lawyer.

The previously undisclosed arrest preceded Khan's 2001 arrest for insider trading, which led to a sentence of probation, and was before her 2007 insider trading arrest in the case that developed against Rajaratnam. It's not clear from court papers whether the 2000 trade secrets prosecution was related to the 2001 insider trading case.
Dowd's filing also discloses that Khan told investigators in 2007 that she bought shares in Hilton Hotels Corp.

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By: Peter Clarke

Nineteen semiconductor engineers and managers indicted for stealing process technology and market planning details from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and passing them to Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have all pleaded not guilty in court in Seoul, according to a Yonhap report.

The 19, which consists of 10 employees from chipmaking equipment supplier Applied Materials Inc., four from Samsung and five from Hynix, have claimed the Samsung information was never offered to other chipmakers, the report said.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In his ruling Monday, Phillips said he spent more than 12 hours going through about one-third of the documents, which included innocuous memos, some documents that already had been made public, a "power plant tour memo detailing extraordinarily privileged and trade secret materials such as phone numbers for making room reservations, dinner plans and flight itinerary," a copy of a newspaper article, and pricing information readily available on the Internet.

Including such documents "clearly and convincingly demonstrate that defendants did not review their documents thoroughly but, in this court's opinion, literally and figuratively dumped two boxes of documents on the court's desk and expected the court to do the work," Phillips wrote.

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Associated Press

AK Steel Holding Corp. has filed a lawsuit alleging three ex-employees of its Rockport, Ind., plant stole company trade secrets.

The lawsuit filed March 11 says Donald Earley resigned as a senior process engineer last year and accepted a job with ThyssenKrupp Steel USA.

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By: Jamie Satterfield

Under a landmark decision by a Knoxville federal magistrate judge, the public will be barred from viewing and jurors from later discussing key evidence in a rare case of alleged corporate espionage.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley has inked his approval to federal prosecutors' request for an order keeping secret the contents of seven photographs two Greenback engineers are accused of snapping via a cellular phone of equipment at a Goodyear plant in Topeka, Kan., in May 2007.

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Associated Press

A former DuPont Co. employee will spend 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to theft of trade secrets and obstruction of justice. A sentence higher than the 16 months the government had recommended as part of a plea agreement.

Mitchell left DuPont in early 2006 and formed his own aramid fiber consulting business. He was accused of sending an e-mail with DuPont proprietary information to Kolon Industries, a Korea-based competitor to DuPont's Kevlar products.

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By: Jaspreet Virk

Rio Tinto's employee Stern Hu, an Australian citizen, has pleaded guilty to charge of bribery in a Shanghai court, according to a lawyer.

Hu is one of the four employees of the Rio Tinto Group who is facing trial in the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court Monday. The hearing began at 8:30 a.m.

The Rio Tinto employees, Liu Caikui, Wang Yong, Ge Minqiang, and Stern Hu, are being tried in the court for charges of commercial bribery, and infringement of trade secrets, almost after nine months from being arrested.

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A January 2011 federal trial date has been set in a case in which an Omaha elections systems firm sued former employees over trade secrets.

Election Systems & Software sued two former employees and an Indiana elections consulting firm last year.

One of the employees, Mark Allison of Sachse, Texas, has been dismissed from the lawsuit. But the Omaha firm has maintained its allegations against James Dalton of Granger, Ind., and his consulting firm. The Omaha company alleges Dalton was using copyrighted software to help state and local governments manage elections.

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By: Anthony Lin

The four employees of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group charged in China with bribery and stealing trade secrets were found guilty Monday and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 7 to 14 years. The four immediately were dismissed by Rio Tinto, according to the Australian Associated Press; their actions were described by the company as "deplorable."

The most senior of the four, Australian citizen Stern Hu, was sentenced by the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court to 10 years in prison--five years for bribery, and five for stealing trade secrets, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

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After a two-week jury trial Deceuninck North America won a $1.158 Million Verdict, plus attorneys' fees, in a trade secrets case against a former employee and the company he went to work for, Sensibuilt Building Solutions.

When DNA first learned that the former employee had gone to Sensibuilt, a forensics review of his work computer ultimately led to the discovery that he had downloaded more than 2,000 of DNA's most confidential documents onto a flash drive in the weeks just prior to departing the Company. During this process the employee also stripped many of those documents of data that would track their use and subsequently "wiped" clean his home computer's memory, further impairing discovery.

"While I greatly appreciate the jury's verdict, the fact remains that we will never really know what damage was done our Company"

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By: Amy Coopes (AFP)

Australia Thursday denied the arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu had ever disturbed trade ties with China, citing a record gas deal signed on the last day of his trial.

Trade Minister Simon Crean said the 20-year contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) heralded an era of long-term mega-deals between the two countries.

"Australia is very much the Saudi Arabia of gas," Crean told Bloomberg Television. "It's a cleaner energy source, and China is looking to cleaner fuel options, longer-term commitments to energy security."