MacHen, Inc. v. Aircraft Design, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that continued employment is sufficient consideration in support of non-competition or confidentiality agreement
• stating that “general [protective] measures” may not be enough if they are 20 not “designed to protect the disclosure of information”
• interpreting Washington law, held a restaurant chain’s recipes lacked the requisite novelty and economic value to be accorded trade secret status
• refusing to imply severability in large part because there was no severability clause
• considering multiple elements together as one concept

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).