Legal Opinion
Parus Holdings, Inc. v. Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 9, 2008No. 08 C 1535PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
WILLIAM T. HART, District Judge.
Plaintiff Parus Holdings, Inc. (as the alleged successor-in-interest to Vail Inc.) alleges that defendants Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. (“Banner”), Charles Call, and Eugene Nelson committed legal malpractice, breached their fiduciary duties, and committed trade secret violations by providing non-defendant Robert Swartz with confidential information about Vail’s application for a patent on which Vail was being represented by defendants. Swartz allegedly used this information to submit his own patent application for a similar invention. Plaintiff…
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