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HICKLIN ENGINEERING, L.C. v. BARTELL

Nos. 05-2282, 05-2302.

439 F.3d 346 (2006)

HICKLIN ENGINEERING, L.C., Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. R.J. BARTELL and R.J. Bartell & Associates, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 22, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey D. Harty, Christine Lebron-Dykeman (argued), McKee, Voorhees & Sease, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James F. Boyle (argued), Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and MANION, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Axi-Line Precision Products designs and makes testing equipment for auto and truck transmissions. Since 1998 Axi-Line has been a division of Hicklin Engineering. Between 1993 and 2000 R.J. Bartell, an engineer, worked part-time for Axi-Line. He did not sign a restrictive covenant or confidentiality agreement. After Bartell began a competing business (R.J. Bartell & Associates) that sells transmission testing equipment, Hicklin filed...

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