There is an interesting trade secret case in the federal district court of New Jersey involvingalleged trade secret disclosure by an employee moving from Baxter to HQ. Text of a recent ruling:The Court, however, need not belabor the parties’ positions, because genuine factual disputes plainly preclude a finding in HQ’s favor. Indeed, Mr. Owoo’s presentment of his esmolol proposal to HQ less than a month after his Baxter termination, standing alone, creates a reasonable inference that Mr. Owoo conceived of his esmolol proposal while at Baxter, and HQ’s own records permit the inference that it named Ms. Castagna an inventor mostly as a courtesy (and not necessarily because she conceived of the esmolol formulation embodied in HQ’s patents). (See Exs. B, D, E to Kelly Dec.; Ex. 29 to Gallo Dec.; Squeglia Dep. at 174:23-175:2.) Even more, no party challenges the fact that Mr. Owoo contractually assigned to Baxter his rights to any invention…
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