Philips Medical Wins Injunction, Fees in X-Ray Trade Secret Suit

Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc. won a permanent injunction against an Illinois corporation that allegedly facilitated the transfer of trade secrets about X-ray tube design for a pair of Chinese companies.

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday granted three of Philips’s motions, including attorneys fees and contempt sanctions, after the Chinese companies and the Illinois corporation failed to retain counsel.

Philips brought the suit against Kunshan Yiyuan Medical Technology Co. and Kunshan Guoli Electronic Technology Co., and GL Leading Technologies Inc. and three of its Illinois-based employees in 2019. The employees had worked at ...