· 1/16/1958
Town & Country House & Home Service, Inc. v. Newbery
Citations
- 3 N.Y.2d 554
- 147 N.E.2d 724
- 170 N.Y.S.2d 328
- 1958 N.Y. LEXIS 1268
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- holding that advance notice is not required
- finding a customer list to be a trade secret under New York law where the “customers had been screened by respondent at considerable effort and expense, without which their receptivity and willingness to do business with this kind of a service organization could not be known”
- information concerning an employer’s customers held to be a protecti-ble trade secret because customers had to be screened from many potential customers
- distinction is made between former employee soliciting customers of former employer who are openly engaged in business in advertised locations and soliciting unadvertised customers known to employee only through his employment
- see Pltf. Opp. (Dkt. No. 43) at 5-6
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Judges: Voorhis
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