You want to hold someone accountable for stealing trade secrets, but the defense wants to put the items into evidence to show that they were not trade secrets. Once they have been entered into the public record, they are no longer a trade secret. What do you do?
Coke Trade Secrets Trial Delayed
Williams attorney, Janice Singer, believes that that evidence will help clear Williams. Williams’ defense is based partly on the argument that the Coca-Cola documents Williams photocopied at her office at Coke headquarters in Atlanta and took home with her were simply some of the routine paperwork related to Williams’ job, not corporate secrets.
But Coke believes that the documents Williams wants to use in her defense are actually laden with the proprietary Coke information that Williams is accused of stealing and, ironically, incriminate her. But Coke’s main concern is making sure that Pepsi and other competitors do not see any of those documents, and they would if they were to become part of the public court record.
Filed under: 2007 Trade Secret Cases, Trade Secret
