Legal Opinion
Hallmark Cards, Inc. v. Monitor Clipper Partners, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 15, 2014No. 13-1905PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Hallmark Cards, Inc. (Hallmark), hired Monitor Company Group, L.P. (Monitor), to compile research on the greeting cards market. Monitor transmitted confidential market research it had prepared for Hallmark to a private equity firm called Monitor Clipper Partners, LLC (Clipper), the defendant in this litigation. Clipper used this information to purchase and subsequently manage a competitor of Hallmark’s called Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc. (RPG). Hallmark sued Monitor for breaching its contractual obligations and Clipper for misappropriating Hallmark’s trade secrets in…
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