Legal Opinion
Sandlin v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 27, 1944No. 12702PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
The action is one for an injunction, accounting of profits, and damages, for using and disclosing an improvement in a poultry-picking device, which plaintiffs claimed to have discovered and kept a trade secret, but which they had revealed to defendant in alleged confidence during licensing negotiations with him. The district court held that plaintiffs could have no possible cause of action against defendant, because the discovery did not constitute a patentable invention and hence it was immaterial whether “the ideas involved had been confidentially conveyed”. This…
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