United States Third Circuit

MOORE v. KULICKE & SOFFA INDUS., INC., 02-1466

Under Pennsylvania trade secret law, only the burden of production is shifted when defendant raises independent development, and the ultimate burden remains on plaintiff to prove that defendant did not arrive at a technique similar to the trade secret through its own independent development.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2003
• Published 02/06/2003

Judges

• Before BECKER, Chief Judge, McKEE and HILL  Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Miller, Phoenix, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William J. Lehane, Wilson M. Brown, III, Lori A. Jackson, Amy B. Miner, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Philadelphia, for Appellee.