Kurt Calia Named One of Daily Journal’s Top Trade Secrets Lawyers

Kurt Calia Named One of Daily Journal’s Top Trade Secrets Lawyers

October 7, 2020

PALO ALTO—Daily Journal has named Kurt Calia to its 2020 Top Trade Secrets Lawyers, a recognition of the leading California lawyers who specialize in trade secrets law.

Mr. Calia is a partner in Covington’s Palo Alto office and has been a trial lawyer at the firm for more than 25 years, where he focuses on complex civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property and patent disputes for a wide range of firm clients. He has tried cases on a broad array of technologies, ranging from satellite communications equipment, genetically modified crops, software, pharmaceutical products, light-emitting diodes, and everything in between.

Daily Journal highlights Mr. Calia’s successful representation, with others at Covington, of GE Aviation in a US Court of Federal Claims suit that demanded access to GE trade secrets related to engines used in Naval warships. “GE had a huge amount of proprietary technical information developed over decades and asserted that no one should get that information for free,” he commented to the Daily Journal.