December 18, 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.
September 30, 2025
A New York federal judge caused a splash last week when she ruled that a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album can constitute a trade secret, and attorneys say the surprising decision could broaden the scope of trade secret protections to cover artistic works.
September 26, 2025
A New York federal judge has found that a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album could be considered a trade secret in a novel decision that made significant trims to a cryptocurrency project's lawsuit against the album's former owner Martin Shkreli, but the judge kept in play claims that he misappropriated the project's trade secrets.
February 21, 2025
Convicted former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli won't have to pay sanctions after purportedly dragging his feet for nearly six months on complying with court orders to hand over copies of a Wu-Tang Clan album to the crypto project that bought it from him.
February 19, 2025
The crypto project that holds the only physical copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album that once belonged to Martin Shkreli has asked a Brooklyn federal court to make him pay for months of noncompliance with a preliminary injunction requiring him to account for all copies of the album he may have made.
January 08, 2025
Martin Shkreli told a Brooklyn federal judge that the writer and producer of the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album should weigh in on their rights to the work as the crypto project that purchased the album presses ahead with a suit accusing the pharma bro of keeping copies of the album after he was ordered to give them up.
October 09, 2024
The crypto project suing Martin Shkreli for allegedly harming the value of a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album on Wednesday once again told a New York federal judge that the notorious pharmaceutical executive hasn't complied with an order directing him to account for all copies of the album he may have made.
September 23, 2024
A Brooklyn federal judge on Monday ordered Martin Shkreli to update the court on how many tracks he copied from a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album after the cryptocurrency group that now owns the work argued Shkreli could be holding out on surrendering all his copies amid the parties' legal battle.
September 06, 2024
The crypto project suing Martin Shkreli for allegedly harming the value of a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album on Friday urged a federal judge to ensure Shkreli "fully" complies with an order directing him to surrender all copies of the album after the project found his recent submission lacking.
September 03, 2024
Martin Shkreli turned over 15 copies of the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he once owned after a New York federal judge ordered him to surrender any copies to his attorneys amid an ongoing lawsuit.