Eastern Marble Products Corp. v. Roman Marble, Inc.

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• recognizing that requiring employees to sign confidentiality agreements and separating manufacturing area from public view supported finding that possessor of trade secret adequately preserved the necessary secrecy of manufacturing process
• explaining that \basic principles of equity” and \an implied contract” forbid an employee from using or disclosing confidential information acquired during his employment
• although terms of confidentiality agreement may not technically have covered information, the agreement placed “employees on notice that secrets were involved”
• “What is a trade secret depends in each case ‘on the conduct of the parties and the nature of the information’ ”
• managerial employee may not solicit his employer’s customers while still working for his employer
• “It is settled by our cases that the duty of an employee not to disclose confidential information is grounded on basic principles of equity . . . and upon an implied contract, growing out of the nature of the employer-employee relation.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).