On November 1, 2023, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California awarded damages to Skye Orthobiologics, LLC (“Skye”) and Human Regenerative Technologies, LLC (“HRT”) for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of duty of loyalty by Skye’s former employee (“Defendant”). While
Breach of Contract
First Circuit: “Difficult to Compile” but Publicly Available Facts Can Be Trade Secrets
By David Gobel & Steven J. Pearlman on
On August 29, 2023, the First Circuit affirmed a ruling from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts that Allstate Insurance agents misappropriated trade secrets when they retained spreadsheets that contained confidential information. Allstate Ins. Co. v. Fougere, 79 F.4th 172 (1st Cir. 2023). Significantly, the First Circuit rejected the argument that the spreadsheets could not be trade secrets because most of the information within them is publicly available.