General Electric Co. v. Sung

843 F. Supp. 776 (1994)

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General Electric Co. v. Sung

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
843 F. Supp. 776 (1994)

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Facts

General Electric Company (GE) (plaintiff) sued Chien-Min Sung and Iljin Corporation (defendants) in federal district court. The jury found that Sung and Iljin misappropriated trade secrets relating to GE’s technology for making industrial diamond. GE spent 20 years perfecting that technology. By contrast, armed with GE’s trade secrets, in two years Iljin went from having no industrial-diamond program to competing against GE in the industrial-diamond market. Iljin’s technology was similar or even identical to GE’s technology in many respects. GE waived its rights to seek monetary damages. Instead, GE moved for a production injunction barring Iljin from producing industrial diamond for the 10 years GE claimed it would have taken Iljin to develop industrial-diamond technology on its own. Other trial evidence indicated that Iljin could have developed its own industrial-diamond technology in seven years.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Gorton, J.)

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