September 06, 2023
A California federal judge denied Tuesday software company Proofpoint's attorney fee request for scoring a $14 million trade secret theft verdict against an ex-executive and a rival that hired him, finding that the evidence supporting the jury's willful misappropriation finding is minimal "at best" and not enough to warrant fees.
July 11, 2023
A California federal judge has found that a former employee of a unit of software company Proofpoint Inc. doesn't have to pony up the $480,000 a jury said he owed for allegedly breaching a contract he had with his former employer, which had been part of a nearly $14 million jury verdict.
April 19, 2023
A California federal judge has refused cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc.'s bid to undo various aspects of a jury's decision that it was entitled to about $14 million after finding that a former employee and a French technology company misappropriated most of the trade secrets at issue in a suit.
October 29, 2021
A California federal judge expressed skepticism Friday at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc.'s bid for exemplary damages that would nearly double a $14 million verdict after a jury found Vade Secure maliciously stole Proofpoint's trade secrets, saying she's struggling to see how the jury reached its finding that Vade Secure acted with malice.
August 23, 2021
A California federal jury has said Proofpoint Inc. was entitled to about $14 million after finding that a former employee and a French technology company misappropriated most of the trade secrets at issue in a suit relating to cybersecurity.
July 08, 2021
Attorneys who are vaccinated will be allowed to go maskless before a jury on Monday in a Daiichi Sankyo unit's patent suit in California federal court alleging Novartis is infringing its billion-dollar skin cancer treatment. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.