Legal Opinion
Progressive Products, Inc. v. Swartz
Court of Appeals of Kansas
Decided April 17, 2009No. 99,550PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STANDRIDGE, J.:
Progressive Products, Inc. (PPI) manufactures and sells Ceram-Back, a ceramic coating for pipe elbows that significantly lengthens the life of the pipe. Tom Swartz, Marvin Rob-arts, and Calvin Bunney are former PPI employees who left PPI to start VIN Manufacturing, LLC (VIN), a competing company. PPI sued, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and requesting relief in the form of a permanent injunction. After a bench trial, the district court determined Swartz, Robarts, Bunney, and VIN misappropriated PPI’s trade secrets but found a permanent indefinite injunction…
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