Legal Opinion
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company v. Ronald Pribyl, James Harvey, Thomas Skrtic, and Accu-Tech Plastics, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2001No. 00-2972, 00-3021PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Chief Judge.
The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (“3M”) produces and markets a product known as carrier tape. When the company discovered that three of its employees had formed Accu-Tech Plastics (“Accu-Tech”) to manufacture and market resin sheeting, the essential component of carrier tape, 3M brought suit. After dismissing certain 3M claims pursuant to Accu-Tech’s summary judgment motion, the case proceeded to trial. The jury ultimately determined that Accu-Tech had misappropriated trade secrets from 3M and that Accu-Tech’s founders had breached duties of loyalty owed to…
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