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On December 7, 2020, United States District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) denied Plaintiff SIMO Holdings Inc.’s (“SIMO”) motion to use four confidential documents in a related trade secret dispute pending in Shenzhen, China, and instead imposed a $40,000 sanction on SIMO for disclosing the confidential documents to Chinese counsel.
SIMO sued defendants uCloudlink Network Technology Limited and its U.S. subsidiary uCloudlink (America), Ltd. (“uCloudlink”) in 2018 for patent infringement and, in a trial last year, prevailed. During discovery, uCloudlink produced confidential documents and information allegedly stolen from SIMO’s Chinese subsidiary, Shenzhen Skyroam Technology Co. Ltd. (“Skyroam”), which forms the basis of the pending trade secret dispute in China.