WINSTON RESEARCH CORP. v. MINNESOTA MIN. & MFG. CO.

No. 19409.

350 F.2d 134 (1965)

WINSTON RESEARCH CORPORATION, Charles S. Tobias and Wayne R. Johnson, Appellants, v. MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee. MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, a corporation, Cross-Appellant, v. WINSTON RESEARCH CORPORATION, Charles S. Tobias and Wayne R. Johnson, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith D. Beecher, Los Angeles, Cal., Wm. Douglas Sellers, Pasadena, Cal., Laurence B. Dodds, Little Neck, N.Y., for appellants-cross appellees.

William H. Pavitt, Jr., Ellsworth R. Roston, Charles H. Schwartz, Smyth, Roston & Pavitt, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee-cross appellant.

Before JERTBERG and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and FOLEY, District Judge.


BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

The Mincom Division of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company developed an improved precision tape recorder and reproducer. Somewhat later, Winston Research Corporation developed a similar machine. Mincom alleged that the Winston machine was developed by former employees of Mincom, including Johnson and Tobias, by using confidential information which they had acquired while working on the Mincom machine, and sued for damages and an...

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