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  1. December 18, 2025

    Top Trade Secrets Decisions Of 2025

    The Ninth Circuit clarified the rules of engagement in trade secrets disputes with guidance on when confidential information must be precisely detailed during litigation, and jurors delivered a $200 million verdict against Walmart over product freshness technology. Here are Law360's picks for the biggest trade secrets decisions of 2025.

  2. July 28, 2025

    Walmart Makes Deal After $223M Loss In Trade Secrets Trial

    Walmart Inc. has reached a settlement with Zest Labs Inc. to end a suit accusing the retail behemoth of using Zest Labs' trade secrets related to shelf-freshness technology after a jury awarded the company $223 million in damages, according to a Monday court order.

  3. May 14, 2025

    Walmart Hit With $223M Verdict In Trade Secrets Fight

    An Arkansas federal jury has awarded Zest Labs Inc. nearly $223 million in a suit that had accused Walmart of swiping the startup's trade secrets related to shelf-freshness technology.

  4. March 11, 2025

    Ex-USPTO Head Can't Be Expert In Walmart IP Fight, Co. Says

    A startup suing Walmart over trade secrets connected to shelf-freshness technology wants an Arkansas federal court to block the retailer from retaining former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal as an expert when the $115 million case moves forward to a retrial.

  5. October 24, 2024

    Walmart Hid Patent Evidence, Co.'s Sanctions Bid Claims

    Zest Labs wants Walmart sanctioned in a suit claiming the retail giant stole the startup's trade secrets related to shelf-freshness technology, telling an Arkansas federal judge that Walmart hid important evidence about patents it had filed applications for.

  6. July 10, 2024

    Walmart IP Foe May Face $2.9M Penalty After Jury Win Tossed

    Counsel for a food tech startup that saw its $115 million patent infringement verdict against Walmart nixed may be ordered to pay the retail giant's $2.9 million legal bill due to misrepresentations about a key piece of evidence, an Arkansas federal judge said.

  7. December 22, 2023

    Walmart Wins New Trial After $115M Trade Secrets Verdict

    Walmart can have a new trial after an Arkansas federal jury determined that it nicked a startup's trade secrets related to shelf-freshness technology and owed $115 million in damages, a federal judge ruled Friday.

  8. August 30, 2022

    Startup Loses Bid To Shield Docs In $115M Walmart Fight

    The Eighth Circuit has shot down an appeal from startup Zest Labs Inc. of a lower court's order that it had to cough up dozens of documents in a food storage and technology patent case against Walmart in which Zest was handed a $115 million jury verdict.

  9. April 27, 2021

    Startup Wants $46M Atty Fee After Patent Win Against Walmart

    Zest Labs Inc. asked an Arkansas federal court on Tuesday to make Walmart Inc. fork over $46 million in attorney fees and expenses based on a 40% award contingency fee from the startup's $115 million jury verdict against the retail giant over infringement of a food storage and technology patent.

  10. April 12, 2021

    Walmart Owes $115M For Stealing Startup's Food Tech

    A jury in Walmart's home state of Arkansas said the world's largest retailer owes a Texas food technology startup $115 million after it developed shelf-freshness technology by shoplifting the startup's trade secrets.