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The Guardian, one of the world’s leading newspapers, recently interviewed Womble Carlyle attorney Press Millen about a landmark trade secrets judgment.
 

A Virginia jury awarded the DuPont corporation $920 million from a South Korean company after allegations that the competitor stole trade secrets concerning DuPont’s Kevlar body armor technology.
 

Millen told The Guardian that the outcome was the biggest trade secrets ruling that he could ever recall.

“In order to get a settlement this large there has to be a real sense of egregiousness and the jury has to buy into that,” Millen told the newspaper. “Kevlar is also a well-known product, bought in civilian as well as military contexts. It's a brand name and a lot less abstract than a formula,”

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Press Millen is a trial attorney who has litigated a wide variety of antitrust and other complex business cases, including cases related to trade secrets, in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Press co-authors Womble Trade Secrets, a blog that follows trade secrets litigation. Numerous independent sources, including Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America, have named him one of North Carolina’s top litigators. Millen practices in Womble Carlyle’s Raleigh office.