Tracerlab, Inc. v. Industrial Nucleonics Corporation

HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment in an action in which plaintiff alleged the misappropriation of trade secret information in connection with the construction of radioactive measuring devices known as “beta gauges” and in the issuance of a patent embracing these products.

Plaintiff-appellant is a Massachusetts corporation principally engaged in the research, development and manufacture of a diversified line of nucleonic equipment for industrial…