JOSTENS, INC. v. NATIONAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS

No. 81-637.

318 N.W.2d 691 (1982)

JOSTENS, INC., Appellant, v. NATIONAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard & Donnelly, Elmer B. Trousdale, Ronald C. Mickelberg and Paula D. Osborn, St. Paul, Orville E. Fisher, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Leonard, Street & Deinard, Harold D. Field, Jr., Stephen J. Davidson and Robert L. DeMay, Minneapolis, for respondents.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


SIMONETT, Justice.

Appellant, Jostens, Inc., sued several of its former employees and a computer firm for misappropriation of trade secrets and proprietary data in Jostens' computer system used for the design and manufacture of its class ring molds. The trial court found no misappropriation. Because the trial court's findings have support in the evidence, we affirm.

This appeal involves application of the trade secret doctrine to the rapidly expanding and...

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