April 30, 2015
Korean company Kolon Industries Inc. pled guilty Thursday to criminal charges that it conspired with former DuPont Co. employees to steal trade secrets relating to Kevlar bulletproof vests, agreeing to pay $360 million to resolve long-running criminal and civil cases.
September 05, 2014
Industrial materials maker Kolon Industries Inc. urged a Virginia federal court on Friday to apply Korean law to a trade secrets dispute in which DuPont Co. accuses the rival of stealing information related to Kevlar body armor, saying the court should "avoid further error."
February 25, 2014
A Virginia federal judge on Tuesday denied Kolon Industries Inc.'s attempts to trim $18 million in attorneys' fees owed to DuPont Co. in the chemical giant's trade secrets suit against it involving illegally obtained information from a former employee, ruling Kolon could have paid less if it had not been so contentious during discovery.
August 30, 2012
A Virginia federal judge on Thursday banned Kolon Industries Inc. from producing a body-armor material for 20 years, marking a win for DuPont Co. in a trade secret battle that saw Kolon slapped with a $920 million jury verdict last year.
May 11, 2012
A Virginia federal judge on Friday denied Kolon Industries Inc.'s bid to stay an order blocking the body armor maker from making large asset transfers without giving DuPont Co. a chance to challenge a transaction, in a trade secrets case where DuPont won a $920 million verdict in September.
February 21, 2012
A Virginia federal judge refused to recuse himself Tuesday from Kolon Industries Inc.'s antitrust and trade secrets cases against DuPont Co., saying Kolon had waited too long to criticize his stint as an attorney for McGuireWoods LLP when the firm represented DuPont in a 1985 patent suit.
January 27, 2012
A Virginia federal judge on Friday rejected a pair of post-trial motions lodged by body armor maker Kolon Industries Inc., leaving intact a $920 million trade secrets verdict for industry rival DuPont Co.
October 18, 2011
Juggling more than a million pages of discovery documents, the lawyers at McGuireWoods LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP knew they were going to have to keep things simple to convince a jury that Kolon Industries Inc. had squeezed trade secrets out of former DuPont Co. employees to produce a rival body armor product.
September 14, 2011
A federal jury in Virginia on Wednesday awarded DuPont Co. $920 million in damages in its suit accusing South Korean competitor Kolon Industries of using trade secrets related to the body armor component Kevlar that were stolen by a DuPont employee.
July 22, 2011
A Virginia federal judge on Thursday hit Kolon Industries Inc. with sanctions for deleting emails and files relevant to DuPont Co.'s lawsuit accusing it of using trade secrets related to body armor component Kevlar that were stolen by a DuPont employee.