Lowndes Products Inc. v. Brower

The plaintiff, Lowndes Products, Inc. (“Lowndes”), appeals from an order denying injunctive relief and damages for the misappropriation by defendants of Lowndes’ trade secrets, and for breach of duty of loyalty by certain defendants to Lowndes as employer.

Lowndes is principally located in Easley, South Carolina, where it is engaged in the manufacture of nonwoven textile fabric. This fabric is manufactured by forming a web from fibers such as nylon, rayon or dacron. To this web a liquid bonding agent — termed “latex,” “adhesive”, or “binder” — is applied. The web is then dried to form the…