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         <title>Berkeley HeartLab Sues Health Diagnostic Lab for &apos;Conspiracy, Trade Secret Violations&apos;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By Kirell Lakhman

Berkeley HeartLab, the CLIA lab unit of Celera, sued Health Diagnostic Laboratory and several former employees Jan. 14 for alleged "trade secret violations, breach of contract, conspiracy, [and] unfair competition," among other charges, according to a recent blog post.

The suit was filed two weeks after five BHL sales reps decamped to HDL and claims that in October 2008 a former BHL senior vice president founded Health Diagnostic "with the alleged intent to compete with Berkeley by providing diagnostic clinical tests that target cardiovascular disease and disease management similar to Berkeley's clinical programs."

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         <title>Google complaint highlights China-based hacking; experts suggest government, military involved</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By Joe Mcdonald (CP)

Google's accusation that its email accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks.

The hacking that angered Google Inc. and hit dozens of other businesses adds to growing concern that China is a centre for a global explosion of Internet crimes.

The government denies it is involved. But experts say the highly skilled attacks suggest the military, which is a leader in cyberwarfare research, or other government agencies might be breaking into computers to steal technology and trade secrets to help state companies.

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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:54:45 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Samsung`s Tech Secrets Leaked to Hynix: Probe</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Key semiconductor technologies of Samsung Electronics have been leaked en masse to rival competitor Hynix Semiconductor over the past six years through partner companies, prosecutors said yesterday.

Arrested yesterday were the vice president and eight workers of Applied Materials Korea, a semiconductor equipment producer, on the charge of leaking the chip technologies and trade secrets of Samsung Electronics to Hynix.

A Hynix executive was also indicted on the same charge and a combined eight workers from both companies were charged.

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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:51:22 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Ex-Bristol-Myers Employee Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets - WSJ.com</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: Jared A. Favole 
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 
 
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A former employee of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) is being charged with stealing trade secrets from the pharmaceutical firm in an attempt to create a competing company in India, according to the federal government.

U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that Shalin Jhaveri, who worked at Bristol-Myers from November 2007 until Tuesday, stole numerous trade secrets from the company. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:49:18 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>China sends Rio trade secret infringement and bribery case to prosecutors</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: Lehman Lee & Xu and Tsolmon Shar
 
Chinese police have concluded an investigation into a detained Australian Rio Tinto Ltd executive and three colleagues arrested on charges of infringing trade secrets and bribery and sent the case to prosecutors, the Australian government and Chinese state media said last Monday. Four Rio staff, including Australian citizen Stern Hu, has been in Chinese custody since July over accusations of illegally obtaining commercial secrets.    

Rio Tinto and the Australian government have urged China to allow the four, including Stern Hu, an Australian citizen who headed Rio Tinto's iron ore business in China, legal representation and to handle the case in a transparent way.

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         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:16:14 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Managing the legal risks of social technology </title>
         <description><![CDATA[McCarthy Tetrault
George S. Tach

A different risk posed by Web 2.0 technologies involves the inadvertent disclosure of intellectual property. Consider trade secrets. The law will afford protection to an organization's trade secrets -- including its confidential information -- so long as the organization takes reasonable measures to keep the material confidential.

It is extremely easy, however, to let a secret slip out during a Web 2.0 chat, blog posting or tweet. Again, we have already had an analogue to this risk in the Web 1.0 environment, namely the errant e-mail (for example, adding a non-company name to the "cc" list on sensitive, trade secret laden e-mail, and then having to hope that the "recall" technology works).

To continue reading this interesting article from Lexicology, <a href="http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=60da3557-1aed-4f7f-99ea-6296a6b673d8">click here.</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:01:14 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Bimbo Bakeries Seeks Limits on Its Departing Muffin Man</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: Tresa Baldas
<a href="http://">The National Law Journal</a>

The secret recipe for Thomas' English Muffins is putting to the test an unsettled legal doctrine: that you can sue someone out of fear that he might steal your trade secrets. 

In a highly watched trade secrets case in Pennsylvania, Bimbo Bakeries USA is going after former executive Chris Botticella, a 20-year employee who allegedly told the company he was retiring when he was really taking a job with rival Hostess Brands Inc. According to court records, Botticella signed a confidentiality agreement last March after being promoted to manage a California facility that makes Thomas' English Muffins. Bimbo Bakeries says he is one of fewer than 10 people in the world who know how to make the muffins with the special "nooks and crannies." ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:54:44 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Motorola seeks to enjoin former exec Company doesn&apos;t want phone technology to flow to Nokia </title>
         <description><![CDATA[By Wailin Wong

Motorola is seeking a temporary restraining order against a former executive who left the Schaumburg-based company to join Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia.

Motorola filed an emergency motion Jan. 14 in Cook County Circuit Court, asking for a restraining order against David Hartsfield. The case was moved to U.S. District Court.

The filing said that as a vice president in the mobile devices business, Hartsfield had "access to Motorola's most competitively sensitive information" and was responsible for phones using Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA, technology. In the U.S., Verizon Wireless and Sprint use the CDMA standard.

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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:01:32 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>PLDT says it will not reveal interconnection &apos;trade secrets&apos;	</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: Lenie Lectura / Reporter	   

TELECOM giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) said the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) can't compel it to reveal the interconnection terms it extends to other carriers. This, as it said it needs to protect its "trade secrets" because the terms are negotiated between two parties.

PLDT and other phone companies refused to submit to the NTC vital information such as interconnection facilities, network requirements, traffic measurement, infra sharing and collocation, charging mechanisms, and interconnection usage charges. Their refusal led to the issuance of show-cause orders by the regulators. 

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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:59:17 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Apple turns lawyers loose to keep its big secret </title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: Mike Harvey  

Apple has turned to its lawyers in an attempt to keep the lid on the company's biggest product launch in three years.      

Its lawyers have sent a warning letter to a website that offered cash for photos of its touchscreen tablet personal computer before the product is unveiled, probably next week.

The tablet will be Apple's biggest new product category since it launched the iPhone in 2007. The company, which has turned secrecy into a marketing phenomenon, has declined to confirm even if its event a week today will reveal the much-anticipated device.

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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:54:29 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Trade secrets cloak chemicals&apos; possible dangers</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By Lyndsey Layton
THE WASHINGTON POST

A lawyer representing Cupertino iPhone, iPod and "I'm a Mac" computer maker Apple is demanding that Valleywag, Gawker Media's tech gossip site, retract its offer to pay as much as $100,000 for proof that the company's rumored tablet or "iSlate" computing device actually exists.

"You and your company have crossed the line by offering a bounty for the theft of Apple's trade secrets," Michael Spillner, a lawyer for Menlo Park-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, wrote in a letter to Gawker Editor-In-Chief Gabriel Snyder citing California's trade-secret law. According to Bloomberg News, Apple confirmed the letter was sent on its behalf.

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         <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:06:10 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Apple lawyer: Don&apos;t offer $100K &apos;bounty&apos; for tablet &apos;secrets&apos;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By Frank Michael Russell

A lawyer representing Cupertino iPhone, iPod and "I'm a Mac" computer maker Apple is demanding that Valleywag, Gawker Media's tech gossip site, retract its offer to pay as much as $100,000 for proof that the company's rumored tablet or "iSlate" computing device actually exists.

"You and your company have crossed the line by offering a bounty for the theft of Apple's trade secrets," Michael Spillner, a lawyer for Menlo Park-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, wrote in a letter to Gawker Editor-In-Chief Gabriel Snyder citing California's trade-secret law. According to Bloomberg News, Apple confirmed the letter was sent on its behalf.

To read the complete article from <em>Mercury News</em>, please <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14192984">click here</a>. ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:57:31 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>China says Rio Tinto case to be handled fairly</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Chinese police have concluded investigations into four employees of Rio Tinto Ltd., who were suspected of infringing trade secrets and bribery.  They were handed over to the Shanghai procuratorate for prosecution, Shanghai public security authorities said Monday.

She said China always dealt with the case according to Chinese law and diplomatic agreements between China and Australia.

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         <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:47:56 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Social media permeate the employment life cycle</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: Renee M. Jackson

Employers must address their use and misuse before, during and after an employee's tenure.

Social media are any type of Internet-based media created through social interaction in which individuals primarily produce, rather than consume, the content. In the workplace, the prevalent social media are video-sharing Web sites (YouTube), social networking Web sites (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter), online multiuser virtual worlds (Second Life, World of War craft) and personal or corporate blogs.

The increased use of social media in the workplace, by employees and employers alike, presents both opportunities and risks for employers because social media now permeate the entire life cycle of employment: during pre-employment inquiries, throughout the period of employment and after separation from employment. Employers must consider and address the use and misuse of social media at each stage.

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         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:44:55 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>American Board of Internal Medicine sues Arora Board Review in trade secrets case</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By: John George 
Staff Writer

The American Board of Internal Medicine filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets by the Arora Board Review and two of its principals.

The lawsuit, filed at U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, also names Arora principals Rajender K. Arora and Anise Kachadourian as defendants.

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