Its been over three years since Judge Alsup’s early rulings demonstrated his concern that Waymo’s former star engineer, Anthony Levandowski, took Waymo’s proprietary information to Uber and, today, August 4, 2020, Judge Alsup sentenced Levandowski to 18-months in prison for stealing trade…
Employers need to guard against technology and remote work environments that make it increasingly easy to steal confidential trade secret information and data unbeknownst to the employer. Further frustrating prosecution of trade secret cases is the ease with which electronic and paper trails disappear in…
Craft brewers celebrated National Beer Day yesterday with more comfort that Courts will help them protect their recipes, brewing processes and other trade secret information against rogue employees who take such information. A dispute “brewing” since 2013 came to a “head” on March…
A California Court of Appeal concluded that what appeared to be a standard nonsolicitation of employees provision was, in fact, an unenforceable noncompete that prevented its former employees from carrying out their chosen profession. The Court of Appeal in AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Services,…
Yesterday, the Department of Justice, probably for the first time since 2010, commenced and settled anti-trust proceedings against employers who had reached agreements not to poach each others’ employees. In 2010, the Department of Justice commenced and settled anti-trust actions against Adobe,…
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