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MIDWEST MICRO MEDIA, INC. v. MACHOTKA

No. 79-182.

76 Ill. App.3d 698 (1979)

395 N.E.2d 188

MIDWEST MICRO MEDIA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOSEPH MACHOTKA, Defendant-Appellant. — (MICRO-SCAN, INC., Defendant.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Opinion filed September 25, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd E. Dyer, Jr., of Wheaton, and Michael J. Scalzo, of Shapiro & Kreisman, of Oak Brook, for appellant.

Wendell W. Clancy, of St. Charles, for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SEIDENFELD delivered the opinion of the court:

This interlocutory appeal from an order granting a preliminary injunction tests whether a salesman's knowledge, acquired during his former employment, of customers' degrees of acceptance of a scientific test product is entitled to protection as a trade secret in the absence of an express contract.

On March 16, 1979, the trial judge granted the request of the employer...

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