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Trade Secrets Roundup : Untrustworthy Employees and Partners, Inevitable Disclosure

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Report: Man stole trade secrets - Local - Bradenton.com

Manatee County Sheriff?s Office detectives arrested Darrin Stephen Zaza, 44, after viewing surveillance video of him entering a conference room in a local Comfort Suite motel, April 5, where his former boss was planning to hold the event.
Sheriff?s detectives say the victim, owner of a Davenport golf equipment business, was holding a trade show in the conference room when Zaza stole from him, the sheriff?s report said.
Zaza is accused stealing documents containing the victim?s list of suppliers, bank account information, inventory lists, show schedules and business contacts. He also took documents containing the victim?s business strategy and future plans, according to the sheriff?s report.

Ad agency sued over Bing commercials

Denizen, a small ad company registered in Delaware, claims an advertising concept in which a commercial serves to advance the plot of the TV show during which it runs.
Denizen sued ad agency JWT and its parent, WPP Group, over a commercial during "The Philanthropist" when character A.J. Butterfield (Lindy Booth) pines to go places featured on the home page of Bing, such as Italy's Cinque Terre. Another commercial features Booth and co-star Michael Kenneth Williams using Bing to search for information on cholera.
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In its complaint (PDF), Denizen says company representatives met with London-based WPP and disclosed trade secrets regarding the patented advertising technique, agreeing to confidentiality. Among other charges, Denizen alleges JWT and WPP misappropriated trade secrets and broke their contract with Denizen.

LendingTree sues vendor over Google deal - Charlotte Business Journal:

LendingTree is suing one of its vendors, contending the vendor?s work with Google Inc. to set up a competing loan-referral service will reveal LendingTree trade secrets to Google.
LendingTree seeks an injunction against vendor.
The company filed the suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte. It accuses Mortech Inc. of Lincoln, Neb., of violating contracts with LendingTree in its recent decision to work with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) as well as LendingTree.
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LendingTree says it has used Mortech as a ?referred provider? for that service since signing an agreement with the company in April 2008. The contract was amended in November, the suit says, to ?limit Mortech?s ability to make its pricing engine services available? for use by competitors.
After signing that agreement, LendingTree says, it shared confidential information with Mortech it would not have shared otherwise.

Now, LendingTree says, it has learned Mortech intends provide pricing-engine services to Google for an online loan exchange it will launch late this month or in early September.
?In the course of its collaboration with Google, Mortech will inevitably disclose the confidential, proprietary, and secret information that it has about LendingTree,? the suit states. ?And such disclosure will irreparably damage LendingTree?s future business.?