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Berg-Nelson wins trade-secrets lawsuit

Torrance. Berg-Nelson Company Inc., a Long Beach maker of rubber and metal hoses, belting and other products, recently won a $242,000 jury verdict in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Torrance, the company's law firm, Cummins & White, said Tuesday. Berg-Nelson had accused Advanced Sealing and Supply Co. Inc. in Cerritos of misappropriating trade secrets by "wrongfully obtaining a sample of a proprietary, specialized fuel injection hose, allowing Advanced Sealing to reverse engineer the hose and avoid the expense and time involved with its own product development," Cummins & White said. According to Berg-Nelson's lawsuit, filed in December 2006, the company's "co-gen" hose was designed and fabricated for turbine-generating units at Chevron El Segundo refinery, whose employees provided the hose to Advanced Sealing. To continue reading this interesting article from The Daily Breeze, click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).