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Intellectual Property

Sep. 3, 2010

Eating Pie and Trade Secret Theft, What's the 'Use?'

It is not often a case hits upon two favorite topics: Trade secrets and pie. By Michael Young of Alston & Bird.

By Michael Young

It is not often a case hits upon two of our favorite topics: Trade secrets and pie. But when it does, mmmmmmmm, it's good to be an attorney.

And for this reason, we are grateful to Justice Conrad Rushing who provided us with a little of both in Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. 2010 DJDAR 7942 6th App. Dist.(April 29, 2010).

Silvaco is a relatively standard trade secret case in the computer ...

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