Law360 reports on trade secrets issue in Koninklijke Philips NV et al. v. Elec-Tech International Co. Ltd

As to the outcome: A California federal judge refused Monday to sanction Philips and its counsel, Reed Smith LLP, for allegedly misusing confidential information obtained in its trade secret suit against Elec-Tech International Co. Ltd., saying there was no court order for Philips to violate.

link: http://www.law360.com/articles/719323/reed-smith-philips-shake-sanctions-bid-in-trade-secret-row

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But Philips argued that all of the information it used in its state court suit came from publicly available or permissible sources, calling the motion no more than an attempt to keep facts in the federal case from making it into the state case.