AT&T Wireless

Client: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. and Claircom Communications
Representation: Trade Secret Litigation
Date: 2003
Locations: DuPage County, Illinois

Summary:

Schiff Hardin successfully represented AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. and Claircom Communications against plaintiff's allegations of trade secret misappropriation, in a case arising from air-to-ground telephone service technology for airline passengers.

After a six-week trial, a DuPage County, Illinois jury returned a verdict finding that plaintiff's predecessors had actually released their trade secrets claims. The jury also found that plaintiff's claimed compilation was not a trade secret.


Original IFPC Shareholders, Inc., as Assignee of the Goeken Group Corporation and In-Flight Phone Corporation v. AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., Claircom Communications and Hughes Network Systems, Inc. (DuPage County, Illinois 2003)