Legal Opinion
Composite Marine Propellers, Inc., Cross-Appellant v. Gerbrig Van Der Woude, Cross-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 28, 1992No. 91-1724, 91-1813PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Per curiam
Composite Marine Propellers, Inc. (CMP) designed and sold marine propellers made of a metal-plastic composite. Injection Structural Plastics, Ltd. (ISPL) was its principal.supplier. ISPL signed a contract promising not to compete with CMP and to refrain from using CMP’s trade secrets, and to obtain similar pledges from its employees. ISPL did not, however, obtain no-competition promises from its workers, and CMP did not check to see what steps ISPL had taken to protect its intellectual property-
Several of ISPL’s key employees quit and set up their own corporation, which began to make marine…
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