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By Edvard Pettersson American International Group Inc. (AIG) sued the former chief executive officer of its International Lease Finance Corp. aircraft lending business, saying he stole confidential information when he left the company and started Air Lease Corp. (AL) AIG...

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Reuters Plaintiffs who claim their trade secrets have been misappropriated must identify what those secrets are during discovery, a New York state judge has ruled. The decision, issued Friday by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich, requires computer software...

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A California lawmaker working to pass the Golden State's first hydraulic fracturing rules has watered down his landmark legislation, hoping to overcome industry opposition to a measure that would force energy companies to disclose the mysterious mix of chemicals they...

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By Alison Grant, The Plain Dealer A former scientist at Bridgestone Americas Center for Research & Technology in Akron was arrested for stealing trade secrets from the center and giving them to a Chinese polymer maker. Xiaorong Wang, 50, of...

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By TODD RICHMOND A judge properly vacated a $1.26 billion judgment against PepsiCo Inc. in a lawsuit alleging the soft drink giant stole two Wisconsin men's idea for bottled water, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. The 4th District Court...

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By DAVID LEE Ratier-Figeac, a French manufacturer of aircraft components, must pay $5 million in punitive damages for sharing trade secrets, a Kansas federal judge ruled. Initially U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson had ordered a $9.59 million award, but the...

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By TIM HULL Refusing to broaden its interpretation of a federal anti-hacking law, the full 9th Circuit on Tuesday affirmed dismissal of several charges against a corporate headhunter who allegedly relied on his former employer's confidential information. A majority of...

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By: Elise Bloom and John Barry As employment disputes commonly involve communications between or among employees, management, and customers, it should come as no surprise that social media's role in workplace disputes has drastically increased in the last year. Indeed,...

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By: ANJALI ATHAVALEY A U.S. district court issued a 10-month injunction against a maker of a Botox alternative that was accused of misappropriating trade secrets belonging to Allergan Inc. AGN -0.14% The injunction, issued by the U.S. district court for...

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By: John Russell Duke Energy Corp. found itself on the defensive Tuesday, as Indiana utility regulators demanded to know why hundreds of documents on the company's troubled Edwardsport power plant should be kept under seal. The utility spent hours making...

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By: Karen Gullo Former DuPont Co. (DD) employee Tze Chao pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets about titanium dioxide technology from the company and provide them to China's state-owned Pangang Group Co. (000629) Chao, 77, a naturalized U.S....

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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Law enforcement officers rave about pepper spray as a way to get compliance without drawing their guns. In recent weeks we've seen it gain scrutiny as law enforcement uses it as a way to control crowds...

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By: Jonathan Stempel Ericsson, the world's largest telecommunications network equipment maker, has been sued for more than $330 million by a Massachusetts broadband network company that accused it of stealing trade secrets and trying to drive it out of business....

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PRNewswire via COMTEX For the first time ever, a full fragrance formula will be published and given out to visitors along with the fragrance at an exhibition in the European Parliament from January 31st to February 2nd 2012. This will...

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In 2009, the former employees were convicted of stealing NCsoft trade secrets following a lawsuit in Korea. In 2010, they were barred from using proprietary NCsoft information, and ordered to pay damages to their former employer, although the damages ruling...

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