· 9/23/1985
Cvd, Incorporated v. Raytheon Company, and Third-Party
Citations
- 769 F.2d 842
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- hold- ing that threat of trade-secret litigation must be a sham to expose maker to antitrust liability
- “Once a trade secret enters the public domain, the possessor’s exclusive rights to the secret are lost.”
- “Like the holders of other intellectual property rights, possessors of trade secrets are entitled to assert their rights against would-be infringers and to defend their rights in court.”
- secrecy is “[t]he cornerstone of a trade secret”
- noting \public interest in free competition\
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Judges: , Coffin, Torruella
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