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WESTERN FORMS, INC. v. PICKELL

Trade Secrets, Labor & Employment Law
As drafted, covenant not to compete expired before defendant left plaintiff's employ and could not be enforced against him after he left. District...

FOUR PILLARS ENTER. CO. v. AVERY DENNISON CORP.

Civil Procedure, Trade Secrets, International Law
Magistrate judge did not abuse his discretion in concluding that a discovery order for trade secret material, under 28 U.S.C. section 1782, would...

SCHLAGE LOCK CO. V. WHYTE

Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Labor & Employment Law
The inevitable disclosure doctrine, permitting a trade secret owner to prevent a former employee from working for a competitor, is contrary to...

BBA NONWOVENS SIMPSONVILLE, INC. v. SUPERIOR NONWOVENS, LLC

Intellectual Property, Patent, Trade Secrets
Claimed trade secret technology satisfied each of the statutory requirements for existence of a trade secret under South Carolina law, and the record...

UTILITY AUTOMATION 2000, INC. v. CHOCTAWHATCHEE ELEC. COOP., INC.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
Because the Alabama Trade Secrets Act does not define costs to include attorney's fees, plaintiff may not recover its attorneys' fees under the "costs...

HERRICK v. GARVEY

Administrative Law, Trade Secrets, Transportation, Government Law
The "trade secret" exemption, to the Freedom of Information Act's general requirement that the federal government release information to the public,...

BAXTER INT'L, INC. v. ABBOTT LAB.

Civil Procedure, Trade Secrets
A renewed motion to place documents under seal, based on a claim of commercially sensitive information, is denied where it does not analyze in detail,...

PEOPLE v. FARELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
Penal Code section 1203.044, requiring the imposition of a minimum county jail sentence as a condition of probation upon conviction of certain theft...

INTEGRAL DEV. CORP. v. WEISSENBACH

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Trade Secrets
In a complaint by a California corporation, for misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition, against a German citizen hired to manage...

STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS GROUP, INC. v. BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO.

Contracts, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
Questions that a pharmaceutical company used in research surveys were not trade secrets, because they were readily ascertainable in public sources,...