Tempco Elec. Heater Corp. v. Temperature Eng’g Co., 2004 WL 1254134 (N.D. Ill. June 3, 2004)

Key Insight: Since plaintiff elected not to conduct its own inspection of defendant’s hard drives, it could not avoid summary judgment on misappropriation of trade secrets claim by merely speculating about the presence of trade secret material on defendant’s computers, when defendant?s (admittedly cursory) inspection turned up no trade secret material

Nature of Case: Trademark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, contract breach

Electronic Data Involved: Hard drives