In Berkley Ins. Co. v. Lane, second circuit decides that that, even though some employment transition restrictions may not apply to lawyers, but lawyers must still abide by the rules protecting confidential, proprietary and trade secret information.
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A Chinese pharmaceutical company is suing the daughter of a former company executive in the District of Massachusetts over allegations that the individual recruited a Lunan employee to share confidential trade secrets with the defendant, per a Wednesday complaint.
Zhiquan Zhao was Lunan Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd.’s board chair and CEO until he died in November 2014; the defendant, his daughter, claimed in 2017 that she was entitled to 21 million shares of Lunan’s common stock equaling about a quarter share of the drug company, according to the complaint.
The plaintiff claimed that, while asserting this purported entitlement in litigation that took place in the British Virgin Islands, the defendant “solicited, abetted, and conspired with an unknown employee of Lunan who gained unauthorized access to Lunan’s computer and database to unlawfully retrieve highly proprietary and confidential information” in March 2019. Among the proprie
Mission Capital Advisor LLC
v. Romaka, suggests that a history of bad acts by the defendant is necessary to meet the “extraordinary circumstances” requirement for an
ex parte seizure.[5]
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Mission Capital, the defendant engaged in egregious conduct, including lying and failing to show up to hearings. The defendant evaded service of a previously issued TRO five times and failed to appear for the preliminary injunction hearing. The Court also found that the defendant had previously lied about deleting trade secret data off his personal computer, only for it to appear later in a forensic review. Based on this pattern of behavior, the Court found the defendant intended to misuse the plaintiff’s trade secret information.
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Plaintiffs GA Telesis LLC and Constant Aviation LLC filed a complaint on Thursday in the Northern District of California against Salesforce.com Inc. alleging that the defendant breached their contract by disclosing information to third-parties without their authorization or consent.
GA Telesis and Constant Aviation asserted that under Salesforce’s Master Subscription Agreement and Non-Disclosure Agreements (collectively, the Agreements), Salesforce “agrees to protect the confidential and proprietary information of its clients, and further agrees not to provide its clients’ confidential and proprietary information to any third-party, unless compelled by law or unless authorized by its clients to do so.” However, despite the terms of the Agreements, Salesforce has purportedly “engaged in the unfair and deceptive business practice of taking its clients’ confidential and proprietary information, manipulating that information, creating inaccu
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On Wednesday, DataCom Inc. filed a complaint in the Northern District of Ohio against former employee Shawn E. Campell and Connected Technologies LLC for the defendants’ alleged “ongoing misappropriation of DataCom’s trade secrets.”
According to the complaint, DataCom is “a licensed telecommunications contractor” and “provides a wide variety of telecommunications services, including, the installation of telephone systems and data networking, fire stopping, lightning and surge protection, video surveillance, access control, and cellular solution services (collectively, the ‘Services’).” DataCom noted that it typically relies on its relationship with customers and its goodwill for its business and work.