Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Yahoo! Granted Restraining Order in MForma Trade Secrets Case




John Borland writes on C|Net News:

A California state judge has given Yahoo its first legal win against a start-up that Yahoo sued for stealing trade secrets.

Yahoo sued San Francisco-based wireless content provider MForma earlier this week, contending that a group of former Yahoo employees left the company and took proprietary source-code and business information to their new jobs.

A judge on Wednesday granted Yahoo's request for a temporary restraining order, barring MForma employees from using or disclosing any proprietary Yahoo information in their work.

In a statement Wednesday, MForma Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Sacks said the seven former Yahoo employees would continue at their jobs as the lawsuit progressed.

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