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By: Patrick J. McDonnell A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space...

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By Rhett Pardon U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Nguyen signed off this morning on an order discharging claims and vacating further motions in the case that pitted two large adult brands over allegations of leaked confidential documents, poached business secrets and...

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By Kirell Lakhman Berkeley HeartLab, the CLIA lab unit of Celera, sued Health Diagnostic Laboratory and several former employees Jan. 14 for alleged "trade secret violations, breach of contract, conspiracy, [and] unfair competition," among other charges, according to a recent...

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By Joe Mcdonald (CP) Google's accusation that its email accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks. The hacking that angered...

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Key semiconductor technologies of Samsung Electronics have been leaked en masse to rival competitor Hynix Semiconductor over the past six years through partner companies, prosecutors said yesterday. Arrested yesterday were the vice president and eight workers of Applied Materials Korea,...

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By: Jared A. Favole DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A former employee of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) is being charged with stealing trade secrets from the pharmaceutical firm in an attempt to create a competing company in India, according to...

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By: Lehman Lee & Xu and Tsolmon Shar Chinese police have concluded an investigation into a detained Australian Rio Tinto Ltd executive and three colleagues arrested on charges of infringing trade secrets and bribery and sent the case to prosecutors,...

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McCarthy Tetrault George S. Tach A different risk posed by Web 2.0 technologies involves the inadvertent disclosure of intellectual property. Consider trade secrets. The law will afford protection to an organization's trade secrets -- including its confidential information -- so...

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By: Tresa Baldas The National Law Journal The secret recipe for Thomas' English Muffins is putting to the test an unsettled legal doctrine: that you can sue someone out of fear that he might steal your trade secrets. In a...

Alice Cabrera The National Law Journal The secret recipe for Thomas' English Muffins is putting to the test an unsettled legal doctrine: that you can sue someone out of fear that he might steal your trade secrets. In a highly watched trade secrets case in Pennsylvania, Bimbo Bakeries USA is going after former executive Chris Botticella, a 20-year employee who allegedly told the company he was retiring when he was really taking a job with rival Hostess Brands Inc. According to court records, Botticella signed a confidentiality agreement last March after being promoted to manage a California facility that makes Thomas' English Muffins. Bimbo Bakeries says he is one of fewer than 10 people in the world who know how to make the muffins with the special "nooks and crannies." ]]> tag:www.tradesecretsblog.info,2010://13.2031 2010-01-22T07:01:32Z 2010-01-21T07:03:31Z

By Wailin Wong Motorola is seeking a temporary restraining order against a former executive who left the Schaumburg-based company to join Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia. Motorola filed an emergency motion Jan. 14 in Cook County Circuit Court, asking for...

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By: Lenie Lectura / Reporter TELECOM giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) said the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) can't compel it to reveal the interconnection terms it extends to other carriers. This, as it said it needs to protect...

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By: Mike Harvey Apple has turned to its lawyers in an attempt to keep the lid on the company's biggest product launch in three years. Its lawyers have sent a warning letter to a website that offered cash for photos...

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By Lyndsey Layton THE WASHINGTON POST A lawyer representing Cupertino iPhone, iPod and "I'm a Mac" computer maker Apple is demanding that Valleywag, Gawker Media's tech gossip site, retract its offer to pay as much as $100,000 for proof that...

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By Frank Michael Russell A lawyer representing Cupertino iPhone, iPod and "I'm a Mac" computer maker Apple is demanding that Valleywag, Gawker Media's tech gossip site, retract its offer to pay as much as $100,000 for proof that the company's...

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Chinese police have concluded investigations into four employees of Rio Tinto Ltd., who were suspected of infringing trade secrets and bribery. They were handed over to the Shanghai procuratorate for prosecution, Shanghai public security authorities said Monday. She said China...

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