No company wants to find itself embroiled in a trade secrets fight, but should it happen, Seyfarth Shaw associate Dawn Mertineit says a recent case in Massachusetts shows how a company that fails to protect confidential information can lose the fight.
In a post on the firm’s Trading Secrets blog, she discusses C.R.T.R. v. Lao, in which the plaintiff sued a former independent contractor for misappropriation of the company’s trade secrets. She says the defendant moved for summary judgment on the grounds that the information allegedly misappropriated was not a trade secret, and that even if it were, the company had not taken adequate steps to protect the information.
