VERTICAL BRIDGE REIT, LLC v. EVEREST INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS, INC. et al

  1. May 24, 2024

    Cell Tower Operator's Trade Secret Suit Tossed For Now

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has thrown out a cell tower operator's allegations that a rival used its confidential information on pricing from landlords and made misleading statements to buy out tower leases.

  2. September 06, 2023

    Cell Tower Operators Trade Barbs In Trade Secret Spat

    Two companies that own and market cell towers have sparred in a series of filings in Pennsylvania federal court over whether one clearly identified the trade secrets at the heart of a suit alleging the other used confidential information to buy out tower leases.

  3. August 09, 2023

    Telecom Co. Says Rent Payments Are Not Trade Secrets

    A company that owns and markets cell towers on land it leases urged a Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday to toss a competing business' lawsuit alleging it accessed confidential information to buy up the rival's tower site leases, asserting that rent payments are not trade secrets.

  4. June 09, 2023

    Telecom REIT Says Rival Is Unlawfully Interfering With Leases

    A telecommunications infrastructure real estate investment trust has told a Pennsylvania federal court that a competitor orchestrated an "improper," multistate, multimillion-dollar scheme to improve its market at the trust's expense by unlawfully acquiring confidential information to make its own business deals.