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Readily Ascertainable - WilmerHale's Trade Secret Bulletin: June 2025

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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

Womble Bond Dickinson

Robo-Torts?

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With humanoid robots looming in the future, look for a brand-new field of personal injury claims. The introduction of the automobile led to the most common civil lawsuit - auto accident personal injury claims....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

What Do Changes to Palworld Mean for the PocketPair/Nintendo IP Dispute?

I have been following and writing about the ongoing legal battle between Nintendo / The Pokémon Company and PocketPair over PocketPair’s popular video game Palworld. This past week, PocketPair published a blog post addressing...more

A&O Shearman

Global antitrust enforcement report - 2025

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2024 saw a significant increase in overall global fines for antitrust enforcement, with total penalties for the jurisdictions surveyed in our report at USD6.7 billion, over double that of 2023 (USD2.9bn) and substantially...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Interesting Delay: Prejudgment Interest Accrues Despite Unreasonable Delay

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision on enhanced damages and prejudgment interest, concluding that the district court correctly applied the appropriate standard for enhanced damages in accordance...more

Jenner & Block

Substantial Trade Secret Verdicts Continue with $452 Million Decision Against South Korean Company

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US civil juries have returned a number of substantial trade secret verdicts against defendants over the past decade. In December 2024, a company from South Korea became the most recent defendant on the receiving end of a...more

Proskauer - Trade Secrets

Jury Awards $452 Million After Trade Secrets Trial

On December 3, 2024, a U.S District Court for the District of Massachusetts jury awarded Plaintiff Insulet Corporation $452 million in compensatory and punitive damages after finding Defendants willfully misappropriated...more

A&O Shearman

Increasing insider threats and the importance of AI governance

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China’s ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is seeking USD1.1 million in damages from a former intern accused of sabotaging its artificial intelligence (AI) large language model training infrastructure....more

Vondran Legal

VRBO owners, does your welcome book and terms include a DO NOT TORRENT warning?

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Strike 3 Holdings is an adult pornography company located in California that has literally filed over 10,000 federal court copyright infringement cases across the United States for nearly a decade now. No company files more...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

AI Litigation Insights

Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and NYP Holdings, Inc. v. Perplexity AI, Inc. - Plaintiffs Dow Jones and Company, Inc. and NYP Holdings, Inc., publishers of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, (collectively, Plaintiffs),...more

WilmerHale

Service Agreement Lessons From July's Global Tech Outage

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In the early morning hours of a random summer Friday in July, IT systems around the globe began to experience widespread crashes. Initial fears of a massive cyber or other malicious attack by a state-sponsored actor or...more

Perkins Coie

“Biometric Identifiers Must Identify”: The Ninth Circuit Clarifies the Scope of BIPA

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Zellmer v. Meta Platforms, Inc., on June 17, 2024, affirming dismissal of a putative class action filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy...more

A&O Shearman

DOJ Fails To Secure Jury Trial In Adtech Monopoly Suit After Damages Claim Mooted By $2.3 Million Cashier’s Check

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On June 11, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ damages claim in a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice and eight states...more

White & Case LLP

HP v Autonomy: The “fake it ‘till we make it” start-up culture on trial

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In its long-awaited judgment, the English High Court1 has found that the British software firm Autonomy defrauded the US tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) and induced its own acquisition for the price of US$11.1bn...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Why Patents Can Matter In Trade Secret Cases

Why should companies considering trade secret litigation consider their patent portfolios? After all, trade secrets, by definition, are secret. They have value in the marketplace by virtue of not being disclosed. And like the...more

White & Case LLP

Silicon Valley’s Home Court: Patent Trends in the Northern District of California

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White & Case Technology Newsflash - This update briefly summarizes 2019 trends in patent litigation from the Northern District of California, which remains an important and frequent venue for technology litigation....more

Hanzo

How a Multifaceted Lawyer Takes on Multidistrict Litigation

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Sean Burke, Partner at Duane Morris, fills us in on the challenges of multidistrict litigation, the advantages of social media evidence, and new medical device technology. Sean Burke, a partner at Duane Morris LLP,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2019 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., Appeal Nos. 2013-1527, 2014-1121, -1526, -1528 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 11, 2019) - In the continuing saga between WesternGeco and ION Geophysical, a Federal...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Jury Verdict of $145 Million Reduced to $10 Million Based on Expert’s Failure to Properly Apportion

On January 3, 2019, following a jury’s award of $145 million in damages to Wi-LAN, the Southern District of California granted Apple’s motion for a conditional order of remittitur to a $10 million damages award. In granting...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Award Of Foreign Lost Profits Is Permissible Domestic Application Of U.S. Patent Act

On June 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 7-2 decision in WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp., No. 16-1011 (opinion by Justice Thomas), holding that a patent owner is entitled to recover lost foreign profits...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical Corp. and Lost Profit Damages under § 271(f)

An introduction to § 271 - Section 271 of Title 35 of the United States Code is the statute that codifies unlawful acts of patent infringement. The most commonly asserted provisions are § 271(a) (direct infringement), §...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Cloud Cybersecurity New Hot Area For Patent Disputes: Blue Coat Systems In Major Patent Battle On Its Cloud-Based Security...

Today’s threats against enterprise and personal data are more formidable and advanced than ever. Over the past decade the cybersecurity industry has rapidly expanded in response to the need for increased online and...more

Carlton Fields

Ascertainability and Predominance Foil Certification of Spyware Invasion of Privacy Class

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A Georgia district court denied certification of a multi-state common law invasion of privacy class in which plaintiff sought damages and an injunction against the lessor of computers allegedly containing unauthorized...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Need for Illumination of Maximum Recovery Rule Warrants Interlocutory Appeal

Chief Judge Patti B. Saris of the District of Massachusetts recently issued an order paving the way for the Trustees of Boston University to seek an interlocutory appeal to clarify the Maximum Recovery Rule for remittitur....more

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