May 19, 2021
L'Oreal and hair care company Olapex have reached a settlement roughly two weeks after the Federal Circuit overturned a $66 million trade secrets and patent judgment against L'Oreal over a hair bleaching method, the companies told the District of Delaware on Wednesday.
December 17, 2019
L'Oreal USA Inc. can't get a new trial to avoid paying nearly $50 million for misappropriating trade secrets and infringing patents belonging to hair care company Olaplex LLC and must additionally pay $14.3 million in Olaplex's attorney fees, a Delaware federal judge has ruled.
August 20, 2019
L'Oreal USA Inc. will have to pay nearly $50 million for misappropriating trade secrets and infringing patents belonging to the hair care company Olaplex LLC, according to calculations detailed in a Tuesday judgment by the Delaware federal judge overseeing the case.
August 16, 2019
A Delaware federal judge ordered cosmetics giant L'Oreal on Friday to stop making and selling hair color products that violate patents held by California-based Olaplex LLC, permanently extending a temporary ban imposed during a two-year intellectual property spat.
August 12, 2019
A Delaware federal jury found Monday that beauty giant L'Oreal USA Inc. misappropriated Olaplex LLC's trade secrets, willfully infringed two Olaplex patents related to a hair coloring product and breached a nondisclosure agreement between the companies.
August 09, 2019
After telling a Delaware federal jury it has been fighting a David v. Goliath battle, Olaplex LLC said Friday it is seeking what could be more than $100 million in damages for L'Oreal USA Inc.'s alleged misappropriation of its trade secrets and infringement of patents related to a hair-coloring product.
August 05, 2019
Beauty product giant L'Oreal USA Inc. used its corporate savvy to steal trade secrets related to a "game-changing" hair-coloring product from a much smaller startup company, a Delaware federal jury was told Monday.
April 26, 2019
A Delaware federal judge on Friday ordered L'Oreal USA Inc. to stop making and selling several products that a hair care startup says infringed a patented "bond multiplier" treatment for dyed hair.
June 28, 2018
Haircare startup Olaplex on Thursday urged a Delaware federal judge to deny L'Oreal's bid to pause a suit accusing the cosmetics giant of infringing a patented "bond multiplier" treatment for dyed hair, arguing that a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision on its patent is "not binding" on the district court.
June 21, 2018
Startup hair care product developer Olaplex LLC accused L'Oreal Inc. of brazenly infringing its patented "bond multiplier" product for treating and repairing bleached or dyed hair Thursday, during a second-chance preliminary injunction argument in the U.S. District Court for Delaware, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.