Basic Chemicals, Inc. v. Benson

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• holding that proper measure of plaintiffs damages due to misappropriation of trade secrets, as well as from other acts of unfair competition, included reference to the value of the plaintiffs business
• stating that a plaintiff must show a likelihood of confusion to sustain a common law unfair competition claim
• applying common law and finding that formula books, “buy books,” “cost books,” and customer books constituted trade secrets
• declining to “interfere with the amount” of a damages award calculated by the district court where “there was proof of a reasonable basis from which the amount of damages can be inferred or approximated”
• setting forth the common law elements in a trade secrets claim: (1) existence of a trade secret, (2) acquisition of the secret as a result of a confidential relationship, and (3) unauthorized use of the secret
• “The principal element of conspiracy is an agreement or understanding between two or more persons to effect a wrong against or injury upon another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).