Originally Posted by
Commodus
I dunno about the trade secrets bit, but it's starting to look like Spesh has a case. Too bad, innovation is a good thing.
"Sales call reports" are pretty universally acknowledged to be trade secrets.
Add to that, the fact they acknowledge that they did the initial designs while employed at Specialized. Specialized owns them. If Specialized really offered to accept a royalty in exchange for letting them keep operating, Volagi should have taken it. Specialized was being kind. (Probably because they hoped to avoid negative publicity.)