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Ex-Partner Accused of AIP Trade Secret Theft

By JOE HARRIS A former managing partner of American Institutional Partners masterminded a scheme to steal the company's trade secrets from its owner, Pelican Equity claims in Federal Court. Pelican Equity, which owns AIP's rights, says Robert Brazell partnered with Stephen Norris to form Talos Partners in order to steal AIP's confidential busines information for their own gain. Brazell used the company's computers to copy a Web site that AIP was developing, which he used for Talos, the lawsuit states. Pelican claims the copying was so sloppy that early forms of Talos' site still referred to AIP. To continue reading this interesting article from the Manhattan Courthouse News Service, click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on July 05, 2009 (boomark / email).