Adams & Associates v. Dell Computer Corporation, No. 12-1238 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 18, 2013)

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The district court judgments now on appeal arose from patent infringement and trade secret litigation between Phillip M. Adams & Associates, LLC (“PMAA”) and ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. (“ASUSTeK”) and Asus Computer International (“ACI”) (collectively, “ASUS”). Over the course of this litigation, the district court: (1) imposed an adverse inference sanction against ASUS for spoliation of evidence; (2) granted summary judgment dismissing PMAA’s trade secrets claim for untimeliness; (3) denied ASUS’s post -verdict mot ion…