September 25, 2018
A subsidiary of the erstwhile Statoil has settled its Texas federal lawsuit against a former executive accused of stealing trade secrets from the energy giant to start up a competing business.
December 07, 2017
A Texas federal judge held Wednesday that Statoil must arbitrate its claims that a former executive for one of its units schemed to steal trade secrets, but rejected his efforts to force the subsidiary into arbitration and to convince the court that an arbitration agreement he signed applies to nonsignatories.
December 04, 2017
The wife of a former Statoil unit chief argued Friday that the court should dismiss the company's claims against her because it had failed to prove she knew about her husband's alleged scheme to steal information and technology to benefit a business he set up after leaving the company.
August 22, 2017
The evidence against a former Statoil unit's chief technology officer is "overwhelming," a Texas federal judge said in a Monday order forbidding him from using information and technology he is accused of stealing to help his own business venture or secure a patent prior to trial.
August 18, 2017
A former Statoil unit chief technology officer urged a Texas federal judge Thursday not to place a preliminary injunction on him in a suit accusing him of masterminding a scheme to steal proprietary technology and to set up a competing business, saying he was never subject to a noncompete agreement.
August 16, 2017
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid from a former Statoil unit's chief technology officer to sanction the company and its chief counsel, one day after the ex-executive alleged there was an unethical agreement in place to pay a corporate representative $250 an hour for her "favorable" testimony.
August 15, 2017
A former Statoil unit chief technology officer entered an emergency bid for sanctions against the energy company and its chief counsel on Tuesday, alleging that the chief counsel violated federal law and the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct when he agreed to pay a corporate representative $250 an hour to testify.
February 14, 2017
A Statoil unit sued its former chief technology officer for trade secrets theft in Texas federal court Monday, claiming he pirated proprietary fracking technology and had his wife file a patent application based on Statoil's confidential information.