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• Idaho Health and Home Products Company Sues Former Employees For Trade Secret Theft - And Ubiquitous News Stories Abound Regarding Longevity Payments

  The Associated Press is reporting that an Idaho health and home products company Melaleuca Inc. accuses a Utah company of raiding some of its top sales staff, infringing on company trade secrets and competing unfairly.Idaho…

• Hedge Fund Withdraws Trade Secret Summons After Concluding its "Evidence" Was Too Shaky to Proceed

  The AmLaw Litigation Daily is reporting that Amaranth Advisors LLC, the energy trading hedge fund that lost almost $7 billion in 2006 trading in natural gas, has withdrawn its trade secret misappropriation lawsuit summons against…

• IMAX Claims Former Partner, Cinemark, Stole The Trade Secrets of the IMAX Theater Experience

  Courthouse News Service is reporting that IMAX claims its former partner Cinemark defrauded it and stole trade secrets by trying to "reproduce" IMAX's "multiplex movie theaters across the Americas." It claims Cinemark used the secrets…

• TSMC v. SMIC Trade Secrets Case Settles: $200 Million Plus Plus Goes to TSMC and SMIC CEO To Resign

  LegalPad, a law blog out in California, is reporting that the massive TSMC v. SMIC has settled.SMIC has agreed to pay TSMC $200 million and an undisclosed amount of stock and warrants, Keker & Van…

• The Trade Secrets of Insanity: Guy Claims Sarah Jessica Parker Stole iPod Trade Secrets From Him and Then Transferred Them to Apple

  Not all trade secrets lawsuits are alike. The one we're going to tell you about here is like no other we've reviewed.Seems Franz Wakefield thinks he got screwed. He claims he invented the iPod in…

• TSMC v. SMIC Trial Continues - See CVN Video Links of Opening, Witness Examination and Verdict

  We've been following progress in the massive TSMC v. SMIC trade secrets trial going on in California, see here: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/11/tsmc-wins-major-trade-secrets-verdict.html. You'll recall that the jury has already found that SMIC had improperly "acquired, used or…

• TSMC Wins Major Trade Secrets Verdict Against SMIC - Damage Award Not Yet Declared

  The Wall Street Journal is reporting the jury in Oakland ruled Tuesday in favor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in a long-running legal battle against rival Chinese chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., which TSMC…

• Spring Design Says to Barnes & Noble's Nook E-Reader: "You've Got Our Chocolate in Your Peanut Butter!"

  Reuters is reporting that Silicon Valley start-up company Spring Design has sued Barnes & Noble and the lawsuit asserts Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets and violated the parties' non-disclosure agreement when it copied Alex's…

• Well-Dressed Attorneys Make Closing Arguments in TSMC v. SMIC Trade Secrets Trial

  We've been following this TSMC v. SMIC trade secrets trial going on out in Oakland, see here: http://wombletradesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/10/semiconductor-international-has.html. The parties have now made their closing arguments, and Law.com has an interesting report regarding those arguments.Jeffrey…

• Citing Need to Protect Certain Trade Secrets, Iowa Judge Agrees to Close Courtroom For Some Testimony and Evidence in Consumer Fraud Trial

  The Des Moines Register is reporting that a Polk County, Iowa judge agreed Tuesday to close his courtroom for parts of a consumer fraud trial brought against a Connecticut-based company by the State of Iowa,…

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