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Case of the Day: Baker Hughes Inc. v. Homa
The case of the day is Baker Hughes Inc. v. Homa (S.D. Tex. 2012). Baker Hughes was an oil-field service company doing business in Texas. It was the developer of “CoreBright,” a fiber used in fiber-optic sensing. Daniel Homa and Robert Harman were Baker Hughes employees. Both had signed non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements. In 2010,……
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Case of the Day: Holt v. Kormann Rockster Recycler
The case of the day is Holt v. Kormann Rockster Recycler GmbH (Cal. Ct. App. 2012). Holt sued Kormann, an Austrian company, Rockster North America (“RNA”), a Canadian corporation, and Stephane Guerchon, a resident of Montreal. RNA was the North American distributor of Kormann rock crushers in North America, and Guerchon owned RNA. The claim……