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· 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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