Johnson Controls, Inc. v. A.P.T. Critical Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an employer has a legitimate interest in preventing an employee’s release of confidential customer information
• stating that former employees admitted they solicited and provided service to former employer's customers
• stating that former employees admitted they solicited and provided service to former employer's customers
• granting a preliminary injunction to enforce a non-solicitation agreement which prohibited the defendants from directly or indirectly servicing any of the plaintiff's customers who had been served or solicited by the defendants, or by another employee under the defendants' supervision
• “negative covenants restricting competition are enforceable only to the extent that they satisfy the overriding requirement of reasonableness”
• “matters of public or general knowledge in an industry are incapable of being designated as a trade secret”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).