(Credit: bakhtiarzein/Adobe Stock) What Trade Secret? Recruiters Dispute Mass. Judge's Findings, $5M Enhanced Award in Favor of Plaintiff Company
"At trial BioPoint alleged theft of more than 50 different so-called trade secrets, including the names and resumes of third-party consultants that were publicly available on Linked-In. The verdict slip, which Catapult objected to, did not ask the jury to identify the trade secrets that they found to have been misappropriated. Thus, there is no way of knowing what the jury found was the 'trade secret' that was misappropriated," said Dana Zakarian, a partner at Smith Duggan Cornell & Gollub, who represents the defendants.
May 04, 2023 at 07:04 PM
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Trade Secrets
Attorneys representing a Boston staffing agency that was ordered to pay a competitor firm more than $5 million for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets said they intend to file a motion for judgment as a matter of law within the next few weeks, arguing that a jury never identified what information was stolen in the first place.
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