Title Source, Inc. v. HouseCanary, Inc., No. 04-19-00044-CV, 2020 WL 5027667 (Tex. App.—San Antonio Aug. 26, 2020, pet. granted) is a new case addressing the jury charge in Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (TUTSA) cases. In a previous post, I discussed the Casteel problem in the misappropriation instructions that resulted in reversal of this multi-million dollar judgment and the court’s evaluation of the evidence supporting the existence of the trade secrets. (For complete discussion of the facts, please see this previous blog post. Since I wrote that post, the Court withdrew its earlier opinion and held, in addition to its previous holdings, that HouseCanary must also retry its breach of non-disclosure agreement claims if it elects on remand to retry its TUTSA claims because the claims were not separable from each other without unfairness to the parties.)
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More Lessons from Title Source v. HouseCanary
Title Source, Inc. v. HouseCanary, Inc., No. 04-19-00044-CV, 2020 WL 2858866 (Tex. App.–San Antonio June 3, 2020, pet. granted) is a new case addressing the jury charge in Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (TUTSA) cases. In my previous post about the case, I discussed the Casteel problem in the misappropriation instructions that resulted in reversal of this multi-million dollar judgment. (For a complete discussion of the facts, please see this previous blog post.) The court, however, addressed more than the just the misappropriation question.
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Two New Brackett & Ellis Trade Secrets Articles Appear In IP Law Section’s Tipsheet Newsletter
My colleague Joe Cleveland and I have written two new articles on Texas trade secrets law. The articles were recently published in the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law Section’s Tipsheet newsletter. You can read the articles below:
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