Today’s post examines two recent decisions from the North Carolina Business Court, Vanguard Pai Lung, LLC v. Moody and Langley v. Autocraft, Inc. These decisions implicate two related exemptions from section 75-1.1 liability for intra-enterprise operations and conduct occurring in the employer-employee relationship. The intra-enterprise exemption, rooted in the statute’s […]
Section 75-1.1 claims involving out-of-state conduct frequently face significant hurdles. A claimant must show a substantial in-state injury for section 75-1.1 to apply. (See here and here.) Choice of law rules can also bar such claims. Today’s post examines two recent decisions (here and here) applying the choice-of-law rules governing […]
While we often write about section 75-1.1 of North Carolina’s General Statutes on this blog, today’s post examines another statute contained in Chapter 75: the Abusive Patent Assertions Act. First, we’ll take a brief look at the Act. Next, we’ll examine the first (and based on our research, the only) […]
Cases involving corporate espionage, trade-secret misappropriation, and theft of confidential information frequently involve someone taking information from a company’s computer system. This conduct often spawns claims under North Carolina’s computer trespass statute or a similar federal statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Today’s post explores several issues surrounding […]
