Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Intellectual Property Law Blogs -> The Trade Secrets Vault

Intellectual Property Law

: The Trade Secrets Vault

FAIVELEY TRANSPORT MALMO AB, Petitioner v. WABTEC CORPORATION, Respondent.

A Swedish company manufacturing and supplying railway systems and services brought trade secret misappropriation action against American company, with which it had had a licensing agreement, seeking to preliminarily enjoin American company from undertaking certain commercial activities. Holdings: The District Court, Jed S. Rakoff, J., held that: (1) manufacturing drawing relating to brake unit product constituted trade secrets; (2) Swedish company had substantial likelihood of success on merits of trade secret misappropriation claim; but (3) Swedish company failed to make a sufficient showing of irreparable harm required to support injunction. Motion granted in part and denied in part.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).