Norton J. Lehman v. Dow Jones & Company, 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 a trade secret is information “used in running the business ... like the formulas or processes used in manufacturing.”
• holding that a trade secret is information “used in running the business ... like the formulas or processes used in manufacturing”
• accepting, in dicta, that the phrase “duly qualified” means that a real estate broker need be authorized as such in the state
• finding such damages to be “clearly an attempt to recoup [plaintiff’s] ‘loss-of-benefit’ or contract damages” rather than “actual pecuniary loss”
• “the most important consideration” in determining whether information is a trade secret is “whether the information was secret”
• “Although the bulk of trade secret law relates to industrial information[,] some kinds of non-industrial business information — for example, data related to customers, merchandising, cost and pricing, and systems and methods — are also protected.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).