An employer alleging former employees took confidential information with them when they left to start a competing refrigeration business isn’t entitled to summary judgment on its misappropriation of trade secrets claims under California law, a federal district court said.
A dispute still exists over whether the information was trade secrets under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the opinion by Judge David O. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said.
Hill Phoenix Inc. alleged that David Rogers and Thomas Lowe misappropriated its trade secrets by taking a customer list, a customer master location list.
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An employer alleging former employees took confidential information with them when they left to start a competing refrigeration business isn’t entitled to summary judgment on its misappropriation of trade secrets claims under California law, a federal district court said.
A dispute still exists over whether the information was trade secrets under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the opinion by Judge David O. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said. Hill Phoenix Inc. alleged that David Rogers and Thomas Lowe misappropriated its trade secrets by taking a customer list, a customer master location list.