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Recreational Data Services, Inc. v. Trimble Navigation Limited

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Alaska, No. S-15893 · judgment March 24, 2017

Certiorari denied · March 5, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 7% cert probability (95% interval 4%–11%)

Before the decision, about 1.6× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a petition citing three to ten dissents, and a business petitioner.

Question presented

A. INTRODUCTION1 Recreational Data Services, Inc. (hereinafter “RDS”), a small Alaskan innovative software company, as the Alaska Supreme Court held the jury properly found, suffered predatory breach of contract and fraudulent misappropriation of novel software and cellphone application concepts and ideas by Trimble Navigation, 1Introduction is submitted per Supreme Court of the United States Office of the Clerk’s October 2015 Memorandum To Those Intending To Prepare A Petition For Writ Of Certiorari In Booklet Format... stating: 3. QUESTIONS PRESENTED: ...The question(s) may be prefaced by a very brief introductory statement to set the scene, so that the question(s) may be understood....

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Phillip Paul Weidner
Phillip Paul Weidner & Associates APC

For respondent
Daniel Patrick Elms
Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP

Case

Subject area
Private Action (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, March 5, 2018 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Mar 05 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 14 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/2/2018.
  3. Feb 09 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Trimble Navigation Limited to respond filed.
  4. Dec 22 2017
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 2, 2018)