United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit brought against Nike and others involving claims of misappropriation of trade secrets by certain golf clubs, summary judgment for Nike and related rulings are reversed in part where the district court erroneously disregarded the relevance of certain undisclosed patent applications by Nike to its evidentiary orders that laid the foundation for the grant of summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2007
• Published 04/18/2007

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and WIENER and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan Tad Suder, Edward E. Castro, Jr. (argued), Friedman, Suder & Cooke, Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Robert Daniel Martinez, Cotten Schmidt-Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, Bruce Judson Berman, McDermott, Will & Emery, Miami, FL, for Nike, Inc., Tom Stites & Associates, Inc. and John Thomas Stites, III.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Renk (argued), Michael Joseph Harris, J. Pieter van Es, Banner & Witcoff, Chicago, IL, Charles Gregory Pouls, Cotten Schmidt, Fort Worth, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.