Heatbath Corp. v. Ifkovits

Heatbath Corporation brought suit to obtain injunctive relief and an accounting from the defendants. Defendants appeal from the final order entered January 24th, 1969, enjoining defendants from: (a) communicating “any knowledge of plaintiff’s confidential formulas and processes and the identity of its customer”; (b) selling any products “. . . substantially similar to” plaintiff’s; and (c) soliciting 12 named customers. The order also granted an accounting of prior sales.

The complaint alleged that Heatbath had developed many trade secrets concerning its chemical blending business in which it…