· 5/30/1985
Roger Burten D/B/A Rainy Day Games & Toys v. Milton Bradley Company
Citations
- 763 F.2d 461
- 226 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 605
- 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 20697
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that contract clause purporting to limit plaintiff to \such rights as I may have under U.S. Patent laws\ did not preclude recovery for tortious misappropriation of trade secret
- “In order to successfully establish a cause of action for misappropriation, therefore, a plaintiff must show that he or she shared a confidential relationship with the defendant….”
- “Appellants amended complaint alleged . . . two counts of trade secret misappropriation, one based on common law tort and the other on Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93, § 42, which essentially codifies the common law”
- “essentially codifies the common law”
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Judges: Coffin, Torruella
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