{"id":2344,"date":"2013-11-14T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2013-11-14T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:29:08","slug":"court-rules-favor-customer-trade-secret-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/court-rules-favor-customer-trade-secret-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules in Favor of Customer in Trade Secret Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><\/span>Conxall Corp. was the supplier of custom cables and connectors to its customer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msasafety.com\/global\/\">Mine Safety Appliances Co. <\/a>(MSA), the third-party defendant in this case.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">MSA later provided drawings and 3-D (3-dimensional) models to the defendant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconcmo.com\/\">ICON Systems<\/a> to enable it to offer a quote and supply the same product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The plaintiff Conxall contended that the drawings were trade secrets.<span>\u00a0<\/span>ICON argued that the drawings and files contained no information that was actually secret or otherwise unknown in the industry.<span>\u00a0<\/span>In furtherance of that argument, it maintained that the drawings and models were not needed to create ICON\u2019s product, that ICON\u2019s product was an improvement on Conxall\u2019s product and that MSA had no duty to keep the materials confidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/court-rules-favor-customer-trade-secret-claim\/#more-2344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conxall Corp. was the supplier of custom cables and connectors to its customer, Mine Safety Appliances Co. (MSA), the third-party defendant in this case.\u00a0 MSA later provided drawings and 3-D (3-dimensional) models to the defendant ICON Systems to enable it to offer a quote and supply the same product. 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