Uncle B's Bakery, Inc. v. O'ROURKE

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• concluding that the balance of harms favored employer after determining that employee was bound by a noncompete clause and that employer would suffer irreparable harm from the disclosure of heavily-guarded trade secrets
• noting that where the movant has an adequate legal remedy, a preliminary injunction will not issue
• reasoning that where an employee has a duty not to disclose its employer’s confidential information, receipt of information in breach of the employee’s duty would be through improper means
• finding threat of irreparable harm in form of trade secret misappropriation in violation of confidentiality agreement where former employee went to work for competitor
• noting defendants had “considerable work experience and ability, and'thus an injunction on employment with a competitor does not leave [them] without employment prospects”
• “Uncle B’s Bakery has adequately demonstrated a threat of irreparable harm [where] there is a threat of a breach of the agreement implicit in O’Rourke’s employment with a competitor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).