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Strategies to Extract Capital from Commercial Real Estate to Withstand Covid-19

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Commercial real estate owners across the United States continue to struggle with the adverse financial impacts Covid-19 has caused to earnings and liquidity. While the return to something resembling a normal real estate market appears to be months, if not years, away, there are some strategies you can pursue now to extract capital from owned …Read more

How to Manage Trade Secret Litigation Costs

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Trade secret litigation can be expensive. Whether you’re bringing a lawsuit to protect your secrets or defending against alleged misappropriation by your company, here are some useful strategies to manage trade secret litigation costs. Identify the Trade Secrets Early Identifying the trade secrets involved in misappropriation litigation is just the beginning. Well before filing a …Read more

Trade Secret Misappropriation – Chinese Biotech Researcher Pleads Guilty

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The U.S. Department of Justice has secured another conviction against a Chinese national for trade secret misappropriation, which is part of a larger push to protect valuable intellectual property. Li Chen, a long time biotech researcher in a medical lab at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio, pled guilty to conspiracy to misappropriate …Read more

Protecting Trade Secrets – Recent High Profile Trade Secret Enforcement Cases

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Companies often consider trade secrets to be their crown jewels, particularly in Silicon Valley. In the digital age, where copying vast amounts of data and transmitting it via the Internet is as easy as one click, protecting trade secrets has become ever more challenging for highly competitive technology companies. Losing control over your trade secrets …Read more

Delaware Court Rules that Stockholder Right to Inspect Books is a Matter of “Internal Affairs”

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On August 13, 2020, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an opinion in JUUL Labs, Inc. v. Grove, holding that a stockholder could not use Section 1601 of the California Corporations Code to inspect the books and records of a Delaware corporation because the “internal affairs doctrine” dictated that Delaware law must apply. The case arose when Daniel …Read more