Lowndes Products Inc. v. Brower

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• stating that “[a]n employee has a duty of fidelity to his employer apart from the question whether he has an obligation to maintain the employer’s processes and systems of operation in confidence.”
• characterizing “isolated steps . . . taken to implement secrecy” as insufficient to merit trade secret protection
• characterizing “isolated steps ... taken to implement secrecy” as insufficient to merit trade secret protection
• plant manager who, while still employed by plaintiff, secretly hired key employees away, disrupting plaintiff’s operations, violated duty of loyalty
• duty breached when employees conspired to take trade secrets and hire away other workers for the benefit of rival company they were forming
• duty breached when employees conspired to take trade secrets and hire away other workers for the benefit of rival company they were forming

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).