Injunction Tossed in Trade Secrets Suit Over Baking Products

The preliminary injunction granted to Mallet & Co. after two of its former employees went to work for a competitor must be vacated, for now, because it’s not specific enough, the Third Circuit said.

Mallet produces baking release agents that help get baked goods out of their pans easily. It claimed that when two employees, Ada Lacayo and William Bowers, left to work for Bundy Baking Solutions to help it get into the baking-release agent business, they misappropriated trade secrets.

The district court granted Mallet a preliminary injunction, saying that Lacayo and Bowers took highly sensitive details about how Mallet ...