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$64 Million Verdict Against Goodyear Vacated for Failure to Properly Define Trade Secrets

An Ohio jury found Goodyear liable for misappropriating five trade secrets related to self-inflating tires in 2022, awarding the plaintiff, Coda Development, $2.8 million in compensatory damages and $61.2 million in punitive damages. Coda Dev. s.r.o. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 160 F.4th 1350, 1353 (Fed. Cir. 2025). Following trial, however, the district court threw out the verdict and found in favor of Goodyear because, among other things, Coda had failed to sufficiently define its trade sec...READ MORE

Ninth Circuit Holds DTSA Does Not Require Plaintiffs to Identify Trade Secrets with Particularity Before Discovery, but Courts Retain Broad Discretion to Manage Trade Secret Discovery

In Quintara Biosciences Inc. v. Ruifeng Biztech Inc., the Ninth Circuit held that, unlike certain state trade secret statutes, the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) “does not require a plaintiff to identify with particularity its alleged trade secrets from the start,” while reaffirming a district court’s “broad discretion and ample alternatives . . . to manage the disclosure of trade secrets in discovery.” --- F. 3d ----, 2025 WL 2315671, at **2, 8 (9th Cir. 2025)....READ MORE

California Governor Signs PAGA Amendments into Law, Declaring “a big win for both workers and businesses.”

On July 1, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law reforms intended to moderate California’s unique and controversial Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”). The PAGA amendments are widely seen as a compromise after a pro-business political action committee sought to place a measure on the ballot that would allow voters to repeal the law....READ MORE