Tele-Count Engineers, Inc. v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Opinion

NEWSOM, J.

Appellant seeks reversal of judgment in favor of respondents Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (hereafter Pacific) and Vernon Graphics, Inc. (hereafter Vernon) on its causes of action for conspiracy to misappropriate trade secrets and disclosure of confidential information. The following is a summary of the pertinent facts.

Pacific employs a process known as “cable counting” to take inventory of its telephone system. Cable counting consists of gathering and reporting data from “cable pairs,” which are the pairs of wires which connect telephones to Pacific’s offices.

Prior…