Bondpro Corporation v. Siemens Power Generation, Inc.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in this diversity suit for theft of a trade secret won a verdict on liability from the jury; but before the jury proceeded to the second stage of a bifurcated trial — that of determining what damages, if any, the plaintiff had suffered — the district judge granted judgment for the defendant as a matter of law. Wisconsin law — -but as adopted in Wisconsin, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act is to “be applied and construed to make uniform the law relating to misappropriation of trade secrets among states enacting substantially identical laws.” Wis. Stat. §…