District Courts

A Northern District of Illinois judge reduced a $58.9 million jury verdict to $10.4 million in a decade-long trade secret case involving fleet management technology for garbage trucks, finding that while the defendant’s conduct was reprehensible, the damages were excessive.

A federal court in Chicago denied BeiGene’s motion to dismiss AbbVie’s trade secret claims alleging that a former AbbVie scientist carried proprietary BTK degrader cancer drug designs in his memory to BeiGene, which then filed patent applications incorporating those designs within six mo