Electric car maker Rivian Automotive will go on trial over allegations that it encouraged its employees who defected from Elon Musk’s Tesla to steal trade secrets, according to a tentative ruling issued by a California judge. Judge Theodore C. Zayner …
HSBC Holdings Plc won the dismissal of most claims brought by First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. over the hiring of dozens of Silicon Valley Bank employees following the lender’s collapse last year. In an order Tuesday, US Magistrate Judge …
American International Group and a group of its excess and surplus lines subsidiaries have filed suit against Dellwood Insurance Group and three former AIG executives who launched the nationwide E&S lines insurance holding company about a month ago. According to …
Apple Inc. said it’s reached an agreement that potentially settles its 2022 lawsuit accusing startup Rivos Inc. of poaching engineers to steal trade secrets. In a joint court filing Friday, the companies told a judge they’re aiming to finalize an …
A federal judge in Detroit on Monday threw out a jury verdict ordering Ford Motor Co. to pay Versata Software Inc $104.6 million for breaching a 2004 licensing contract and misappropriating trade secrets. U.S. District Judge Matthew Leitman said that …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Wednesday sided with South Korea’s chemicals and electric vehicle (EV) battery maker LG Chem Ltd, which accused its cross-town rival SK Innovation Co Ltd of misappropriating trade secrets related to EV …
DENVER — Stephen Bass approached Andy Sovick last year with a plan for writing a guide to snowmobile-access skiing around one of the most popular backcountry destinations in Colorado: Buffalo Pass near Steamboat Springs. Bass, a ski patroller at Utah’s …
For the last several years, hackers based in China have allegedly been sucking up vast amounts of personal data of U.S. citizens: names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, even fingerprints. On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department took another stab …
In the final moments of his rebuttal to L’Oreal SA’s closing argument in a trade-secrets trial, a lawyer for California startup Olaplex LLC told jurors they would choose the victor in a courtroom battle of biblical proportions. “David versus Goliath,” …
L’Oreal SA made its name with an innovative hair-dyeing technology more than a century ago. Now the world’s largest beauty company is facing off in federal court against a California startup with pioneer claims of its own. The startup, Olaplex …