Affiliated Hospital Products, Inc. v. Baldwin

Plaintiffs, Affiliated Hospital Products, Inc., and MPL, Inc., brought this action in the circuit court of Cook County asking injunctive and other relief from defendants. MPL filed a motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to restrain defendants from manufacturing and shipping hypodermic needle machines which MPL charged were designed and built utilizing plaintiffs’ trade secrets. After a prolonged evidentiary hearing, the trial court found that plaintiffs did possess trade secrets. The court concluded, however, that defendants had not utilized or copied this confidential information in…