Legal Opinion
Tri-Tron International, a Montana Corporation v. A. A. Velto and William Wurz, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 28, 1975No. 74--1725PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before KOELSCH and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges, and EAST, * District Judge. KILKENNY, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Velto and Wurz appeal from a judgment entered against them and George Doerner in a nonjury trial in which they were charged, among other things, with improper use of a trade secret and with engaging in a civil conspiracy to improperly utilize the secret.
Factual Background
A brief summary of the facts follows:
By 1967, the appellee, and its predecessor, had developed a device, the purpose of which was to remove scaling from water pipes by an electro-chemical process. Starting in…
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