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Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property

May 14, 2018

Jury awards $30M in trade secrets misappropriation case

A San Jose federal jury has awarded a data center manufacturing company $30 million against an engineering services company for working with Facebook Inc. to build its own data center infrastructure using trade secrets learned from prior collaboration.

A San Jose federal jury has awarded a data center manufacturing company $30 million against an engineering services company for working with Facebook Inc. to build its own data center infrastructure using trade secrets learned from prior collaboration.

Emerson Electric Co., Facebook's co-defendant in the case, improperly disclosed two proprietary techniques to the social media company in a plot to cut out Bladeroom Group Ltd., the j...

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