COLUMBUS, Ohio AP – A former employee who memorized a client list and began soliciting his old company’s customers when he left broke the state’s trade secrets law and must pay damages, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The information that Robert Martin of Columbus took when he left Al Minor & Associates is protected “regardless of the manner, mode or form in which it is stored – whether on paper, in a computer, in one’s memory or in any other medium,” the court said in an unanimous ruling written by Justice Terrence O’Donnell.
