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· 1/24/2003

Penalty Kick Management Ltd. v. Coca Cola Company

Citations

  • 318 F.3d 1284
  • 65 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1563
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 1122
  • 2003 WL 164280

How courts have described this case

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

  • interpreting Georgia law and holding that the Georgia Trade Secrets Act superseded claims for conversion, breach of confidential relationship and duty of good faith, unjust enrichment, and quantum meruit
  • affirming the district court’s grant of summary judgment on the plaintiff’s unjust enrichment and other state law tort claims as preempted by the GTSA
  • applying Georgia version of UTSA in observing “even if all of the information is publicly available, a unique combination of that information, which adds value to the information, also may qualify as a trade secret”
  • Georgia statute; conversion, breach of confidential relationship and duty of good faith, unjust enrichment and quantum meruit
  • no evidence of bad faith in losing label at issue in lawsuit alleging improper disclosure of trade secrets
  • “[E]ven if all of the information is publicly available, a unique combination of that information, which adds value to the information, also may qualify as a trade secret.”

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Judges: Tjoflat, Birch, Goldberg

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