Legal Opinion
Fail-Safe, LLC v. A.O. Smith Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 29, 2012No. 11-1354PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
This case is about whether a plaintiff can sustain a trade secret or unjust enrichment claim when that plaintiff fails to take any protective measures to safeguard its proprietary information. Business relationships do not always develop under formulaic circumstances. But where one company fails to take any protective steps to shield its proprietary information, it cannot then expect the law to protect it when the relationship sours. For this reason, we affirm.
This case involves two companies, Fail-Safe, LLC (FS) and A.O. Smith, Corp. (AOS) and their efforts to develop a…
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