SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. v. JOHNSON

No. 00CA0886.

23 P.3d 1287 (2001)

SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James R. JOHNSON, Jr., and The Newark Group, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

April 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins Coie, LLP, B. Lawrence Theis, Bobbee J. Musgrave, Steven J. Perfrement, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Wheeler Trigg & Kennedy, P.C., Hugh Q. Gottschalk, Carolyn J. Fairless, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant James R. Johnson, Jr.

Holland & Hart LLP, Scott S. Barker, Marcy G. Glenn, Stephen G. Masciocchi, C. William Groscup, Denver, CO; Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, Joseph C. Smith, Jr., Alison G. Wheeler, Jennifer E. Heisinger, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant The Newark Group, Inc.


Opinion by Judge NEY.

Defendants, James R. Johnson, Jr., and The Newark Group, Inc., appeal the trial court's judgment awarding damages in favor of plaintiff, Sonoco Products Company, on a misappropriation of trade secrets claim. We affirm.

Sonoco and Newark are direct competitors in the industry of manufacturing paper spiral tubes and cores, which are essentially paper tubes used for carrying other products such as paper towels, tape, newsprint, etc. Johnson...

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