A federal judge in North Carolina scuttled Eaton Corp.’s decade-long alleged stolen trade secrets legal battle with Frisby Aerospace by dismissing the Cleveland-based aerospace firm’s lawsuit. Eaton had claimed a group of its former engineers stole company designs, took them to Frisby, where they were used to create mimicked-designs of Eaton’s state-of-the-art hydraulic parts. Judge William L. Osteen Jr. ruled that a Mississippi state court had already settled the issue three years ago leaving Eaton with no standing in a North Carolina courtroom. Source: Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, Oct. 4, 2013.
(Central Mississippi/Golden Triangle Note: Eaton’s Jackson, Miss., facility operates one of the most advanced aircraft hydraulic test laboratories in the world.)
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