Moore v. Preferred Research, Inc.

Pope, Judge.

In 1979, plaintiffs Earnest N. Moore and Preferred Research of Atlanta, Inc., entered into a written licensing agreement with defendant Preferred Research, Inc. (PRI) for exclusive rights in a specified territory to certain “techniques and procedures” developed by PRI “in the fields of courthouse records research and verification, credit investigations, examination of records effecting title to real estate and personal property and related services . . . .” The agreement contained a covenant not to compete whereby the plaintiffs agreed not to engage “in a similar business to that…