Pepsico, Inc., a Corporation v. William E. Redmond, Jr., and the Quaker Oats Company, a Corporation

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• holding that district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that employee’s lack of candor regarding acceptance of new job demonstrated employee's willingness to misuse former employer's trade secrets
• holding that former employee’s near certain reliance on trade secrets in new job supports injunctive relief
• holding that, although not the typical case, strategic information regarding price, distribution, and marketing can fall within the realm of trade secret protection
• holding that the inevitability that a former employee would rely on Plaintiff’s trade secrets in his new job with Plaintiff’s competitor demonstrated a likelihood of success on its claim of trade secret misappropriation
• holding the risk of inevitable disclosure further supported by the former employee’s “lack of forthrightness” and “out and out lies”
• noting that certain trade secrets would enable a competitor to achieve a substantial advantage by knowing exactly how [Plaintiff] will price, distribute, and market its [products] and [be] able to respond strategically

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