Life sciences staffing firm BioPoint Inc. convinced the First Circuit to validate most of a $5 million award against its former employee who was found liable for trade secrets violations after passing company information to her fiance.
A lower court didn’t err in finding Catapult Staffing LLC used proprietary BioPoint information to secure a lucrative agreement with biotechnology company Vedanta, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said in an opinion issued Tuesday. The lower court applied the “head start doctrine” to award all profits from the relationship even though some of those profits didn’t directly stem from ...
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