State ex rel. Ampco Metal, Inc. v. O'Neill

If Ampco is required to give evidence in public as to- the nature of its trade secrets which it seeks to protect in the pending circuit court action, such public disclosure will destroy the value of such trade secrets so sought to be protected. In Cincinnati Bell Foundry Co. v. Dodds (1887), 19 Wkly. Law Bull. 84, 10 Ohio Decisions Reprint, 154, 155, Judge Taft, later chief justice of the United States supreme court, declared:. “The property in a.secret process is the power to.make use of it to the exclusion of the world. If the world knows the process, then the property disappears. *534There can…