Massachusetts’ highest court held that a trade secret plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction must show irreparable harm under ordinary equitable principles; likelihood of success on misappropriation does not create a presumption of harm.
A Delaware federal court let a technology company’s federal trade secret claim proceed against two former sales engineers and a rival, but dismissed the Delaware trade secrets act claim and held the employment agreements’ worldwide non-compete and non-solicitation covenants overbroad and unenforceable.
The Ninth Circuit held that Boeing’s patent-inventorship counterclaims were permissive, leaving the trade-secret appeal in the Ninth Circuit and supporting federal supplemental jurisdiction.
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 civil claims under the state’s computer fraud act.