Norman S. Brown and Ibl Engineering & Sales Inc. v. Burr-Brown Research Corporation

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Tom R. Brown, Jr., is a graduate engineer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in electronics. In 1956 he organized the Burr-Brown Research Corporation (hereafter Burr-Brown) of which he became President and a major stockholder. Burr-Brown manufactured and sold electronic devices, mostly operational amplifiers used in the field of instrumentation and control of flight equipment. On or about February 27, 1961, Burr-Brown and Norman S. Brown, doing business as Norman S. Brown Associates (hereafter Norman Brown), entered into a letter agreement by…