Lawyer Commentary Mondaq United States Not All Documents Labeled Confidential Actually Are: Texas Jury Finds $23M Trade Secret Case Was Brought In Bad Faith

Not All Documents Labeled Confidential Actually Are: Texas Jury Finds $23M Trade Secret Case Was Brought In Bad Faith

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On May 31, 2023, a Harris County Texas District Court jury found a telecom company acted in bad faith by filing a $23 million trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against a rival where the underlying technology was found to not actually be a trade secret.

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In February 2019, Telecom firm Teligistics, Inc. ("Teligistics") sued its rival Advanced Personal Computing, Inc. d/b/a Liquid Networx ("Liquid Networx") and company executives Travis Wood and Robert Short, alleging they misappropriated trade secrets concerning its online platform for handling contracts named Telibid. Specifically, Teligistics alleged a former Liquid Networx employee obtained a copy of Teligistic's internal...

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