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COVAD COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY v. REVONET, INC.

A communications company, providing integrated voice and data communications, including digital subscriber line (DSL) services, as alternative to local phone companies, filed suit against customer lead generation services provider, claiming breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing, breach of fiduciary duty, and conversion by taking proprietary customer lead information for voice over internet protocol (VoIP) marketing campaign and integrating such information into provider's federated database and sharing it with competitors. Customer lead services provider moved to compel responses to its requests for production of documents. The District Court, John M. Facciola, United States Magistrate Judge, held that customer lead services provider would be required to produce its e-mails in their native format, rather than in hard copy. Ordered accordingly.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).