The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Case summary: The person MR was working as a manager in the company AEDC. His father was the president of AEDC and his relationship with his father was tense. MR left AEDC after ten years, taking 15,000 pages of trade secrets with him. MR joined another company GEMI which was a competitor of AEDC. GEMI developed equipment which had some similar elements as that of the AEDC equipment.
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