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• New York Federal Judge Finds Punitive Damages Award Excessive Following Trade Secrets Trial

  In an order dated April 20, 2021, U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield granted Syntel Inc.’s request for a new trial or remittitur on the $569,710,384 punitive damage award issued against Syntel following an October 2020 jury trial. In October 2020, a New York federal jury found that Syntel had misappropriated the TriZetto Group, Inc.’s... Continue Reading…

• Vermont-Based Soup Company Claims Mexican Supplier Stole Its Trade Secrets

  A Vermont-based soup company sued its Mexican supplier in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that the supplier breached the parties’ contract and stole the soup company’s trade secrets. According to the complaint, plaintiff New England Country Foods, LLC (NECF), spent years developing a line of chilis for the... Continue Reading…

• Texas Jury Finds Billing Technology Company Did Not Steal Trade Secrets

  On September 30, 2020, a Texas federal jury found that San Francisco-based billing technology company Hint Health did not misappropriate the trade secrets of its former partner, Accresa. The jury also rejected Hint Health’s defamation counterclaim and awarded no damages on its breach of contract counterclaim. Both Accresa and Hint Health operate in the direct... Continue Reading…

• California District Judge Sentences Former Uber Executive to 18 Months for Trade Secret Theft

  On August 4, 2020, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California William Alsup sentenced former Uber executive Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison after Levandowksi pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets relating to Google’s self-driving vehicle project. The judge also ordered Levandowski to pay over $700,000 in restitution. Levandowski was a Google... Continue Reading…

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