Sandlin v. Johnson

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The case is here on a second appeal. Under our previous opinion, 141 F.2d 660, we reversed a judgment for defendant because the trial court had adopted an erroneous theory and had failed properly to try the questions whether plaintiffs’ improved poultry-picking device was at the time a trade secret and whether it had been revealed to defendant by way of confidential disclosure.

On a retrial, the court found that at the time plaintiffs exhibited their device to defendant they had already made a general disclosure of it commercially so that it was not a trade secret; that…