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Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) Intellectual Property Litigation Damages

McDermott Will & Emery

What’s Shaking? Not an Interlocutory Appellate Decision on Damages

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed and remanded a district court certified interlocutory appeal concerning the standard for calculating a reasonable royalty under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). The...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Hytera Petitions Supreme Court to End DTSA’s Extraterritorial Reach

Summary In July 2024, the Seventh Circuit concluded that the DTSA can reach all of a defendant’s worldwide sales caused by the misappropriation, so long as — in the words of 18 U.S.C. § 1837(2) — “an act in furtherance” of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Four Trade Secret Developments to Follow in 2025

Significant developments are likely in 2025 in trade secret law, building on major cases and developments in 2024. Here are four areas to watch....more

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Readily Ascertainable - WilmerHale's Trade Secret Bulletin: November - December 2024

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Welcome to WilmerHale’s bulletin on recent trade secret case law and relevant news items. We’ve affectionately nicknamed it “Readily Ascertainable” because, unlike a trade secret, it should be easy to figure out....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Rise of Trade Secret Litigation

Legal regimes are shifting, including in the intellectual property world as businesses increasingly seek the protection of trade secrets rather than patents to secure their confidential information. When the Defend Trade...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Trade Secret Remedies After Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd.

This is the second of two updates on the impact of Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. Ltd., No. 22-2370, ___ F.4th ___ (7th Cir. 2024) on trade secret cases. The first update focused on the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Second Circuit Vacates Jury Award on Grounds that Damages Theory Lacked Evidence

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On May 25, 2023, the Second Circuit issued an opinion in Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Ltd. v. TriZetto Group, Inc., No. 21-1370 (2d Cir. 2023) that provides guidance regarding recoverable damages in trade secret...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – Trade Secrets Saga Concludes With No Damages Awarded

On Wednesday, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas declined to award any damages to Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s largest telecommunications company, stemming from its allegations of trade secret theft,...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

DTSA’s First Verdict “Fig”-ure: Jam’n to the Tune of $500,000

In little under a year after its enactment, a Federal Court jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued the first verdict under the Defend Trade Secrets Act in favor of the Plaintiff Dalmatia Import Group, Inc. The...more

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