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Deceuninck North America (DNA) Prevails in Trade Secrets Case

After a two-week jury trial Deceuninck North America won a $1.158 Million Verdict, plus attorneys' fees, in a trade secrets case against a former employee and the company he went to work for, Sensibuilt Building Solutions. When DNA first learned that the former employee had gone to Sensibuilt, a forensics review of his work computer ultimately led to the discovery that he had downloaded more than 2,000 of DNA's most confidential documents onto a flash drive in the weeks just prior to departing the Company. During this process the employee also stripped many of those documents of data that would track their use and subsequently "wiped" clean his home computer's memory, further impairing discovery. "While I greatly appreciate the jury's verdict, the fact remains that we will never really know what damage was done our Company" In order to read the complete article from BusinessWire, please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).