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Confidentiality agreements

PRECUT confidentiality provisions addendum is up

August 30, 2010

I just posted a one-page (front-and-back) PDF addendum with “down the middle” confidentiality provisions, excerpted from the Curator’s Notes e-book. The addendum can be attached to and incorporated by reference in another contract form.

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Barnes & Noble sued for Nook e-book reader’s alleged misappropriation of trade secrets provided under nondisclosure agreement

November 3, 2009

According to Womble Carlyle’s Trade Secrets blog, “Reuters is reporting that Silicon Valley start-up company Spring Design has sued Barnes & Noble and the lawsuit asserts Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets and violated the parties’ non-disclosure agreement when it copied Alex’s features into its recently announced Nook e-book.” Read the rest.

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Oral confidentiality agreement with consultant held binding

June 14, 2009

For several years, a consultant helped Vestergaard Frandsen A/S (“VF”), a Danish company, develop an insecticide-treated mosquito net. At one point, two VF employees quit to start Bestnet Europe, which competed with Vestergaard. The consultant stopped working with VF and began to work with Bestnet. VF sued Bestnet in several different countries. In a 700-plus [...]

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