7th Circuit: Lower Court Must Reconsider Copyright Damages In Trade Secrets Suit

( July 3, 2024, 1:57 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 2 held that an Illinois federal judge incorrectly calculated damages against a mobile communications company for using stolen copyrighted code from another mobile communications company, with the panel finding that without specific proof that the code was stolen from an Illinois server, copyright damages should be lowered....