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$100 Million Breach of Contract and Trade Secret Lawsuit Dismissed

Earlier this week, a Texas jury dismissed a software company’s lawsuit against Sun Microsystems which sought damages in the amount of  $100 million. In the lawsuit, the software company alleged that after Sun had initially contracted with them to jointly develop certain software, Sun decided about 3 years later that they wanted to go with a different vendor, and transferred [...]

Posted Under: Breach of contract, Trade Secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition
This post was written by Jonathan Cooper on April 29, 2009 Comments (0)

Federal Judge Seals Courtroom To Protect Business Trade Secrets

In this blog post, Long Island, NY small business attorney discusses a recent decision by a California judge to seal her courtroom to the public in order to protect a business’s proprietary trade secret information. For more information on trade secret protection generally, please see Mr. Cooper’s website at www.JonathanCooperLaw.com.

Posted Under: Trade Secrets
This post was written by Jonathan Cooper on April 28, 2009 Comments (0)

NY’s High Court Limits Time to Bring Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim

In a March 26 decision regarding a commercial litigation case, New York’s Court of Appeals held that where a business sought primarily to recover monetary damages, rather than injunctive relief,  resulting from its broker’s alleged breach of fiduciary duties to the plaintiff company, the business had only 3 years within which to commence suit rather than the 6 [...]

Posted Under: Breach of contract, Trade Secrets, breach of fiduciary duty
This post was written by Jonathan Cooper on April 22, 2009 Comments (0)