How a Massachusetts jury found a competing insulin-patch maker liable for misappropriating Omnipod design secrets — and why the court then cut the award by nearly 90 percent.
A Northern District of New York court denied a trade-secret injunction where a former employee's new employer plausibly reverse-engineered publicly available parts—and the plaintiff could not prove its specifications were secret or improperly taken.
The Seventh Circuit held that a would-be buyer who received a target's secret designs during acquisition negotiations and then built a competing product had breached a confidential relationship the law implied from the dealings themselves.
A 1970 Fifth Circuit decision held that aerial photography of a plant under construction was an improper means of acquiring a trade secret, even though the photographers broke no law and breached no confidence.
