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A QUESTION OF ETHICS
  Peter Bonyhard, a physicist, had developed disk-drive heads for International Business Ma-chines Corp (IBM) for five years when Seagate Technology, Inc hired him away from IBM. Bonyhard's assignment was to develop at Seagate the same new type of disk-drive head, called a magnetoresistive (MR) head, that he had been working on for IBM. IBM sued Seagate and Bonyhard, alleging that Seagate had hired Bonyhard for the purpose of stealing IBM's secret formula for the MR heads. IBM, without any evidence that Bonyhard had actually disclosed any trade secrets, sought to have the court enjoin Bonyhard from working for Seagate on the ground that it would be simply impossible for Bonyhard to work for Seagate without disclosing IBM information. A district court granted the injunction, but on appeal, the injunction was vacated. The appellate court held that the terms of the injunction were too vague and not based on any specific evidence that what IBM claimed were confidential information and trade secrets were so in fact.
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