Mary Jane and Allen Green the owners of Greene’s Jewelry are suing Jennifer Lawson for disclosing company’s secret process of Ever- Gold. Jennifer Lawson was a former Junior executive secretary at Greene’s Jewelry violated a confidentiality agreement of Greene’s Jewelry. Even though she signed a confidentiality agreement at Greene’s and agreed not to disclose any information regarding Greene’s process to create Ever-Gold. She disclosed the process of Ever- Gold to the Howell Jewelry the competitor of Greene’s Jewelry to gain employment. The Greene’s has maintained the process by Ever- Gold as a trade secret. Furthermore, Greene’s Jewelry requires all its administrators to sign the contract not to compete and confidentiality agreements. Additionally, …show more content…
Lawson signed a confidentiality agreement at Greene’s Jewelry that she will never disclose any information regarding the process used to create Ever-Gold. When she was terminated at Greene’s Jewelry, she deliberately contacted Greene’s Jewelry competitor’s Howell’s Jewelry World. She introduced herself to the hiring manager as a former employee of Greene’s Jewelry that looking for a job. Moreover, she has confidential information about Greene’s Jewelry that would help Howell to compete with Greene’s. Therefore, Ms. Lawson intentionally disclosed the documents that contained the process used to produce Ever-Gold to Howell jewelry World. As result, Ms. Lawson is guilty of breaching the confidentiality agreement with Greene’s Jewelry. Additionally, she violated the Uniform Trade Secrets Act ( UTSA) and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 that by disclosing and stealing the trade secrets of Greene’s Jewelry.
Laws
There are some laws that Greene’s Jewelry legal department have select that are significant to this case.
1. The uniform Trade Secrets Act ( UTSA): New Hampshire adopted the uniform Trade Secrets Act that refers to the theft of trade secrets as misappropriation. Misappropriation refers acquisition of a trade secret and disclosing information regarding trade secret without consent. (Stim, R.
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Anderson et al., the former employees of Tesla Streling Anderson and Chris Urmson attempted to recruit many engineers of Tesla Motors to their new company Aurora. Additionally, they were also alleged for stealing hundreds of gigabytes. Anderson and Urmson’s want to develop a self-driving car and improve its technology. Tesla is claiming that they violated the employment contract and breached a duty of loyalty to Tesla by recruiting Tesla engineers. the parties settled the lawsuit when Tesla agreed to withdraw its suit without damages and Aurora also agreed to pay Tesla $100,000 (Atkins,2017). This case precedent similarly as we the Greene’s Jewelry believes that our former employee Ms. Lawson intentionally disclosed the documents that contained the process used to produce Ever-Gold to Howell jewelry World. Ms. Lawson clearly violated the confidentiality agreement by stealing the company secret trade and giving to the Greene’s Jewelry