Legal Opinion
Roger Burten D/B/A Rainy Day Games & Toys v. Milton Bradley Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 30, 1985No. 84-1746PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns the clarity of a disclosure agreement between appellants, independent toy inventors, and the Milton Bradley Co., a toy manufacturer, and whether the parties intended by their disclosure agreement to preclude the formation of a confidential relationship. Plaintiffs-appellants Roger Burten and Allen Coleman claim that appellee Milton Bradley, when entrusted with a prototype of an electronic board game they designed, misappropriated their ideas and their technology. Reading the disclosure agreement signed by appellants to be legally dispositive of the…
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