General Universal Systems, Inc. v. Hal, Inc.

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

General Universal Systems, Inc. (“GUS”) originally sued HAL, Inc. (“HAL”), Joseph Herrin, and Ernest Allen Parkin (“HAL Defendants”) for numerous state and federal claims for stealing proprietary software. GUS also sued a number of companies (“Customer Defendants”) to which HAL licensed the software program. We previously ruled on this case in General Universal Systems v. Lee, 379 F.3d 131 (5th Cir.2004) and determined that a remand to the district court was appropriate to settle the sole remaining claim of trade secret misappropriation under Texas law.

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