Words Matter: Your Non-Disclosure Agreement May Trump Governing Trade Secret Law

Reaching back over a decade, the Convolve and MIT v. Compaq and Seagate litigation involves a dispute between MIT, the owner of intellectual property related to signal haping technology, and Compaq and Seagate. 

While the dispute involves many facets, and the Federal Circuit’s most recent ruling included a reversal of a non-infirngement finding, notable for current purposes is the portion of the decision holding that the parties’ negotiated non-disclosure language served to override any governing state law related to trade secret misappropriation.

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