Olson v. Nieman's, Ltd.

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• holding that we ordinarily review jury instruction challenges for correction of errors at law
• noting that minor modifications did not insulate defendant from liability for misappropriation of trade secrets where evidence showed later device was based on plaintiffs diagram
• suggesting that the Iowa Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to recognize the common law tort of misappropriation of intellectual property.
• concluding use of word “inventor” on a drawing generated a jury question on reasonable-efforts-to-preserve-secrecy requirement
• opposing counsel may question expert on some flawed assumptions in testifying going to the weight of the expert’s opinion
• discussing how expert considered statements of a third party when determining if an invention 98 meets the nonobvious requirement of a patent

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