April 27, 2023
Cisco Systems urged a California federal judge on Wednesday to put its competitor Plantronics' request for $6 million in attorney fees and costs on the back burner while it appeals a trade secrets suit loss, or reject the request as exorbitant and because the suit wasn't brought in bad faith.
April 06, 2023
Plantronics asked a California federal judge Wednesday to award it more than $6 million in attorney fees and costs after it beat Cisco Systems' trade secrets case against it and a former employee-turned-competitor.
March 23, 2023
A California federal judge tossed Cisco Systems' trade secrets case against a former employee-turned-competitor and Plantronics, saying Cisco hasn't shown there is a threat of misappropriation that an injunction would prevent.
December 19, 2022
A California federal judge on Monday signed off on a stipulation that said Cisco Systems agreed to resolve its trade secret claims against a former employee-turned-competitor who was accused of taking thousands of confidential files with him after jumping ship to join Plantronics about three years ago.
September 06, 2022
Cisco Systems Inc. urged a California federal court to punish HP-owned electronics company Plantronics Inc. for not preventing the auto-deletion of evidence it says is critical to its trade secret case against the rival and a former employee who jumped ship and took confidential documents to the competitor with him.
February 08, 2021
A California federal judge overseeing Cisco's trade secret suit against two former workers sent to arbitration the ex-workers' counterclaims seeking to invalidate employment contracts they characterized as unenforceable noncompete agreements, finding Monday that the pair's claims aren't spared by an intellectual property-related carveout in the agreements.
September 10, 2020
Cisco has asked a California federal court to order two former workers to arbitrate the counterclaims they filed in a recent trade secret suit brought by Cisco, which argued the ex-employees were subject to arbitration agreements.
August 20, 2020
Two former Cisco employees who left to join rival electronics company Plantronics have lodged counterclaims in California federal court, calling Cisco's recent trade secrets suit a "retaliatory campaign" rooted in unenforceable noncompete agreements.
May 27, 2020
A California federal judge refused a request by electronics company Plantronics and one of its executive vice presidents to dismiss Cisco's trade secret suit, but did dismiss claims against two other ex-Cisco employees and sent claims against a third to arbitration.