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· 3/13/1973

Motorola, Inc. v. Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.

Citations

  • 366 F. Supp. 1173
  • 177 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 614
  • 1973 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14545

How courts have described this case

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

  • security inadequate where competitors toured plant, operated “secret” machine and “observed its ‘secret’ process in a separate microscope placed there for this purpose”
  • “A competitor is privileged to hire away an employee whose employment is terminable at will.”
  • where there was an exodus of employees following the resignation of their leader but no evidence of any conspiracy or even encouragement by the lead employee or his new company to those employees to leave

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Judges: Copple

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