Nokia Siemens Networks stated that it has no interest in trade secrets by Chinese rival Huawei Technology.

According to Michael Matthews, head of NSN's strategy and business development, the company has absolutely no interest in Huawei's trade secrets. They don't need that information, they don't want it, and they fully respect the intellectual property rights of others.

He noted that the reason for buying Motorola's network assets was to boost the company's customer base, especially in the USA and Japan and to improve its technology platforms in the CDMA areas.

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Enduris Extrusions, Inc. filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Jacksonville, Florida alleging the misappropriation of its trade secrets by Inteplast Group Limited. The Complaint alleges that Inteplast obtained Enduris's trade secret processes for making Enduris's capped cellular PVC deck board and that it is using those trade secrets to manufacture cellular PVC deckboard for CEVN Corp., a New Jersey company, as well as for sale under Inteplast's own brands. The Complaint seeks an injunction under the Florida Trade Secrets Statute and the Florida Unfair Business Practices Act.

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St. Jude Medical, a global medical device company, announced that the Superior Court of Massachusetts has issued rulings in outstanding litigation between LightLab Imaging (acquired last year by St. Jude Medical), Volcano and its subsidiary Axsun Technologies.

The rulings find that Volcano and Axsun Technologies violated a Massachusetts law against engaging in unfair competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, through a pattern of inappropriate conduct directed at key technology used in the company's Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) product platform.

The statutory violations arose in connection with Volcano's acquisition of Axsun Technologies, a key LightLab supplier, in 2008. The Court also found that these violations were knowing and willful and entitle LightLab to recover attorneys' fees.

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The Associated Press

A business owned by state Sen. Bill Hudson has been accused in a federal lawsuit of stealing trade secrets from a competitor.

The Hattiesburg American reports Channel Control Merchants, owner of the Treasure Hunt and Dirt Cheap stores, filed a lawsuit this past week in U.S. District Court against Hudson and his business partners.

Central Control Merchants alleges Shattles, Davis and Breazeale took trade secrets with them when they went into business with Hudson after being employed with Channel Control Merchants.

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By Dan Namowitz

Ruling a long-sought victory for aircraft restorers

Brent Taylor hopes that years of court battles he waged in a bid to keep antique aircraft flying are finally over.

Meanwhile, Taylor and other antique aircraft devotees are cheering a Jan. 19 Federal District Court decision that struck down an argument that the FAA had used in "blanket refusals" to make old aircraft type certificate information available to antique aircraft owners and restorers.

That argument--an assertion that releasing the information would reveal trade secrets--fell when Federal District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina granted a motion for summary judgment by Taylor, the Ottumwa, Iowa-based executive director of the Antique Airplane Association, in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit over access to design data and drawings for the 1930s-vintage Fairchild F-45.

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By: Kevin Parrish
Source : Reuters

This lawsuit links back to Google's partnership with eBay and Skype, and a separate deal with VoiceOne.

In 2007 Google terminated its contract with VoiceOne, stating that the latter company violated a nondisclosure agreement by revealing Google as one of its clients. However just one year prior to the termination, Google joined forces with eBay and Skype in a joint internet call service venture. The lawsuit alleges that Google exploited VoiceOne's "confidential information" including algorithms, source codes and the means to make a profit from online calling, and applied those VoiceOne trade secrets to its new deal with eBay and Skype.

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By: Alison Grant
The Plain Dealer

Eaton Corp. is facing two lawsuits arising from a high-stakes trade secrets case that a Mississippi court threw out after concluding Eaton tried to sway the judge overseeing the case.

A lawsuit in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court says Eaton's in-house lawyers violated their duty to shareholders by participating in an outside attorney's improper contact with state Judge Bobby DeLaughter. Eaton's board of directors either knew of the situation and failed to stop it, or fell down on their duties to actively monitor Eaton lawyers, the suit says.

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By: Kyle Alspach

A Holyoke, Mass., company must pay $8.25 million in connection with the theft of solar panel manufacturing trade secrets from a Connecticut firm, according to a report in the Springfield Republican.

The paper reported that a Hampshire Superior Court judge had ordered JPS Elastometrics Corp. to pay the costs, fees and damages after a jury found the company had stolen the trade secrets from Specialized Technology Resources Inc.

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