R.E. Davis Chemical Corp. v. Nalco Chemical Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROVNER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

R.E. Davis Chemical Corporation, the plaintiff in this action (“Davis Chemical” or “plaintiff”), alleges that the defendants, Nalco Chemical Company (“Nalco”), Clarence R. Davis (“Clarence Davis”), John C. Kisalus (“Kisalus”), Robert W. Reynolds (“Reynolds”), and Wesley E. Cravey (“Cra-vey”), misappropriated Davis Chemical’s formula for a chemical compound used in the gasoline refining and re-refining industry and that Nalco currently sells a compound based upon the same chemical principle as that formula. Davis Chemical’s…