Trading Secrets
"Focuses on issues surrounding trade secrets, restrictive covenants, computer fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition."
Author: Erika Birg is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Atlanta, and Kurt A. Kappes is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Sacramento, Calif.;and Michael Elkon, Janet Siegel and Robert Milligan are associates at Seyfarth Shaw in Atlanta.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Labor & Employment • Associate • Partner
Recent Posts from Trading Secrets
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Developments in the IBM v. Papermaster Litigation
There have been several developments in the litigation between IBM and its former executive Mark Papermaster since the Court enjoined Papermaster from working for Apple on November 6, 2008. First, the Court has ordered IBM to…
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Put On a Short Leash
New York Supreme Court Justice Debra James has issued a preliminary injunction restraining a former employee of a dog care business, which provides services such as dog walking, feeding and grooming, from competing with his…
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Court Enjoins Former High-Level IBM Executive from Working for Apple
On November 6, 2008, Judge Kenneth Karas of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted preliminary injunctive relief to IBM and ordered that a former executive, Mark Papermaster, refrain…
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former Intel Employee For Theft Of Trade Secrets
In August, federal prosecutors charged Biswamohan Pani, a former Intel Corp. engineer, with theft of trade secrets from his former employer, Intel. This week, a Massachusetts grand jury added four new counts of wire fraud. If convicted,…
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Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Verdict Against Employee Defectors
In RBC Dominion Securities Inc. v. Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., 2008 SCC 54, the Supreme Court of Canada recently addressed a verdict against a group of departing employees by a British Columbia trial court. RBC…
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Non-compete Litigation in the Financial Services Industry
As a result of the instability in the financial markets generally and at financial institutions in particular, the financial services industry has experienced significant turnover in 2008. The below chart recently found in the New York…
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Texas Dance Instructor Jailed for Contempt of Court Order Enforcing Non-Compete
Eric Rush (a/k/a Eric Romero), a 37-year old dance instructor in Texas, was jailed last week when he violated the Court's order enforcing his non-compete agreement with his former employer, Arthur Murray Dance Studios in…
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Georgia Supreme Court to Review Franchise Non-Compete Case
Earlier this year, the Georgia Court of Appeals made news in Atlanta Bread Company Int'l v. Lupton-Smith, Court of Appeals Case No. A08A0348, when it struck down in-term restrictive covenants of a franchisee on the grounds…
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New Ninth Circuit Case Acknowledges Trade Secrets Exception to Business and Professions Code Section 16600
By James McNairy & Robert Milligan A new Ninth Circuit case, Asset Marketing Systems, Inc. v. Gagnon, 2008 WL 4138181 (Sept. 9, 2008), acknowledges (at least in dicta) that there is a trade secrets exception…
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Georgia House & Senate Committees Meet to Consider Restrictive Covenants in the Commercial Arena
This morning (September 24, 2008), Rep. Kevin Levitas and Sen. Judson Hill from the Georgia Legislature convened the first meeting of a legislative study committee reviewing the law of Georgia with respect to restrictive covenants…