A trade secrets fight between two trash compacting businesses turned into a mutual court loss Friday, with each side taking home nothing after public revelations that both had engaged in fraud.
A Delaware judge awarded no money to either Smash My Trash or Dumpster Devil, a rival startup founded using technical information gleaned from presentations for potential buyers of Smash franchises. The lawsuit accused Dumpster Devil founder Todd Perri of stealing proprietary information by feigning interest.
Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, writing for Delaware’s Chancery Court, acknowledged that Perri stuck with the franchise process in bad faith after deciding ...
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