Intellectual Property

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Intellectual property. A Maryland appeals court has rejected the use of the inevitable disclosure doctrine--in which a departing employee is prohibited from working for a competitor because that employee would inevitably be required to disclose trade secrets--in a case of intellectual property theft. The court ruled that because the victimized company did not implement protections such as noncompete or confidentiality agreements with employees, it could not argue that such protections be applied after an employee's departure.

Coin Acceptors, Inc., headquartered in Missouri, designs, manufactures, and services coin-accepting machines such as vending machines, video games, and self-check-out services such as machines at transit companies. William LeJeune …