July 13, 2023
A federal judge in Pennsylvania decided Thursday to wipe out some more claims in an extensively litigated fight over the correct interpretation of a decade-old licensing contract in a trade secrets row over an aluminum treatment process used to treat Ford F-150 truck parts.
April 21, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge has wiped out several counterclaims in metal manufacturer Arconic's trade secrets feud with rival Novelis over an aluminum treatment process previously used for Ford F-150 truck parts, partly finding that Novelis' claim of patent misuse is not of "practical help."
February 11, 2022
A Pennsylvania federal judge said copied "author" metadata on several of her opinions in a trade secrets case was not indicative of anyone else writing for her, and she declined to recuse herself at the request of the aluminum companies that had brought the case.
February 07, 2022
A pair of Pennsylvania metals companies want a do-over with a new judge on a number of rulings in a trade secrets suit, but their competitor argued to the Pennsylvania federal court that the recusal request was based on a fatal misunderstanding of court documents' "metadata."
January 02, 2018
Novelis Inc. asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday to toss a suit accusing the aluminum parts company of attempting to patent a competitor's proprietary aluminum treatment process, describing the suit as a collection of unviable claims intended to open Novelis up to broad discovery attempts.
November 03, 2017
Arconic Inc. sued a competitor in Pennsylvania federal court on Friday, claiming its rival took Arconic's process for treating aluminum after the companies worked together to provide aluminum parts for Ford trucks, then moved to patent Arconic's idea as its own.