Trade Secrets: ClearOne Gets Broader Preliminary Injunction

Here is the news:

ClearOne Granted Expanded Preliminary Injunction Order in Federal Trade Secret Misappropriation Case, Prohibiting Use, Sale or Marketing, of Wideband Solutions, Inc.s' Infringing Products: "

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClearOne (Nasdaq: CLRO). An order was issued by the federal court yesterday, in favor of ClearOne Communications, Inc. expanding the scope of a previously issued preliminary injunction order, and prohibiting WideBand Solutions, Inc., its principals, and others acting in concert with WideBand, from (among other things) the use, sale or marketing of ClearOne's trade secrets and WideBand's infringing products found to use these trade secrets."

I have not had time to read the pleadings but this from Trade Secrets Blog's ClearOne Obtains Expanded Trade Secrets Injunction gives me a clue on why the expansion occurred:

"The Expanded Order noted that '[t]here is also recent evidence that the WideBand Defendants are still marketing one or more products that contain the trade secret,' and went on to preclude any 'further marketing, selling, manufacturing, development, modification, duplication, or transport or delivery of technology containing [ClearOne's trade secrets],' including 'without limitation, a restriction upon any further marketing, selling, delivery, and/or use of technology or products containing [ClearOne's trade secrets] to service any past or existing customers.'"

Remember this: judges do not like their orders ignored and federal judges really do not like their orders ignored.