Company says fired employee stole trade secrets, other info 10/10/2007 9:00 AM By Cara Bailey -Kanawha Bureau
CHARLESTON - A Kanawha County company has filed a suit against a former employee, claiming he violated West Virginia's Computer Crime and Abuse Act after he was fired for sexually harassing a co-worker.
Attorneys J. David Fenwick and Kristin A. Boggs of Goodwin & Goodwin, filed the suit Sept. 21 in Kanawha Circuit Court on behalf of Prime Insulation Inc., which is located in South Charleston.
The suit is against Randall L. Barrett, a Putnam County resident.
According to the suit, Barrett worked at Prime from May 1, 2002 until April 9, 2006, when he was fired for sexually harassing a co-worker and insubordinate behavior toward his supervisor.
Part of his job duties involved preparing job design documents, job bid documents and other documents containing 'proprietary and commercially sensitive information and trade secrets,' the suit says.
The documents are stored on the 'S' drive on a computer at Prime's worksite at Dow Chemical Company. 'Prime undertook measures to maintain the confidentiality of such information,' the suit says. According to the suit, the information in the documents is valuable to competitors"
Does this bring your business to mind? How does it bring your business to mind - how you have protected your trade secrets or how you have not?
A successful trade secrets case requires prevention taken long before filing a lawsuit. For more information on trade secrets click the label at the end of this post to see all of what I have written on trade secrets.
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