United States Eighth Circuit

Questions that a pharmaceutical company used in research surveys were not trade secrets, because they were readily ascertainable in public sources, and its use of three of the questions in a follow-up survey did not breach an agreement with a market research company.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2002
• Published 06/12/2002

Judges

• McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge., BEFORE:  HANSEN, Chief Judge, and MCMILLIAN and BEAM, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew S. Birrell, argued, Minneapolis, MN (R. Travis Snider, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter M., Lancaster, argued, Minneapolis, MN (Ashleigh E. Varley, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for appellee.