Shonk Tin Printing Co. v. Shonk

Citations

• 138 Ill. 34
• 27 N.E. 529
• 1891 Ill. LEXIS 1098

Syllabus

<p>Trade secrets—bill to enjoin using or divulging—what will sustain. A bill in equity will not lie to enjoin the defendant from using or divulging trade secrets conveyed to him by the complainant, and from claiming that complainant has gone out of business, etc., when the proof fails to show that the defendant is using or threatening to use any trade secret belonging to complainant, and it appears that the latter had, more than a year before suit, sold a part of the plant, and ceased to do business as a manufacturer in connection with the plant. It must appear that complainant, at the time of the filing of the bill, was in such a position that it could have been injured by the acts complained of.</p>