LinkCo, Inc. v. Fujitsu Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that if the basis of a plaintiff’s unfair competition claim is a misappropriated trade secret, then the claims are duplicative and should be treated as a single cause of action
• finding defendant misappropriated plaintiffs confidential information in bad faith and used it for its own benefit where former employee showed defendant plaintiffs confidential information and had secret meetings with defendant
• “Because [the product] cannot remain secret once it is marketed, it cannot rise to the level of a trade secret, as a matter of law.”
• “The parties agree that if the predicate is trade secret 19 misappropriation, then [the plaintiff's] unfair competition claim is duplicative of its trade secret claim.”
• “Computer programs have been found to constitute a trade secret where the source code is not easily copied or ascertainable by inspection of the program.”
• “It is well- established that marketing concepts and new product ideas are not considered trade secrets.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).