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A Missouri federal court dismissed with prejudice all nine claims by a pro se plaintiff who alleged ChatGPT misappropriated her ’emotional-interaction model,’ holding that voluntarily inputting information into an AI tool defeats trade secret, CFAA, and privacy claims.
A federal magistrate judge in Houston denied a motion to dismiss trade secret and non-compete claims against a former territory manager who forwarded hundreds of confidential emails to his personal Gmail, deleted over 1,000 company emails, and joined a direct competitor.
The Federal Circuit reversed a $452 million jury verdict, holding that Insulet’s trade secret misappropriation claim under the Defend Trade Secrets Act was time-barred because Insulet knew or should have known of the alleged misappropriation more than three years before filing suit.
In a certified-for-publication opinion, the California Court of Appeal reversed dismissal of Guild Mortgage’s claims against CrossCountry Mortgage for aiding and abetting employee duty-of-loyalty breaches, holding for the first time that California’s trade secret statute does not preempt
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.
The Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s reduction of an $82 million jury verdict for breach of contract to just $3, and held that trade secret plaintiffs have a statutory right to pursue unjust enrichment damages under both the DTSA and Michigan’s trade secrets act.
A federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri denied cross-motions for summary judgment in a trade secret case where departing employees allegedly prepared requests for proposals for a competitor while still employed, sending the case to trial on misappropriation and fiduciary duty claims.
A federal magistrate in Kansas recommended adverse inference sanctions against OPISystems for spoliation of evidence in a trade secret case involving stolen agricultural grain-bin management source code, after finding that a former employee stored proprietary code on personal devices and a competito