Trade Secrets and Competition

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If location is the most important word in the restaurant business, then the three most important words for a plaintiff in a trade-secret or unfair-competition practice must be theory, theory, and theory.  Each legal theory must be supported by its own facts and evidence and a thorough understanding of the legal consequences of asserting and…

Thursday, May 17, 2012
9:00 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Program
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor, Sacramento, CA

Can You Keep a Secret?

From trade secrets like product recipes and algorithms to confidential details about financing, customers and costs, all businesses have information that could be devastating if it…

Thursday, May 17, 2012
9:00 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Program
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor, Sacramento, CA

Can You Keep a Secret?

From trade secrets like product recipes and algorithms to confidential details about financing, customers and costs, all businesses have information that could be devastating if it were to fall into a competitor’s hands.Continue Reading UPCOMING SEMINAR: Protecting Trade Secrets – How to Manage Employee Use of Proprietary Information

  • Corrales v. Corrales, 198 Cal.App.4th 221 (August 10, 2011)

Just as employees owe a duty of loyalty to their current employers, partners owe a duty of loyalty to one another. When one partner opens a secret “side business” (that does the same thing as the partnership) that partner breaches the duty of loyalty.  When…