Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Edel-Brown Tool & Die Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ruling that trial judge did not abuse his discretion in issuing a permanent injunction where he determined that neither the defendant nor \others in the trade\ were \likely through legitimate procedures to learn the [trade secret]\
• noting that competitors’ failure to produce comparable product despite marketing of plaintiffs product is significant
• observing that when a purchaser provides a competitor with a supplier’s confidential plans and specifications, “[rjelief may be had against [the] competitor despite the lack of any legal relationship between the competitor and the supplier whose plans were appropriated”
• finding a qualified protection in the First Amendment for the “general right . . . to gather information and prepare it for expression”
• relief granted following jury trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).