Blogger Bill Sloat describes a lawsuit Dayton, Ohio-based NCR has filed against a former employee, now at Hewlett-Packard, around trade secrets. NCR maintains that the ex-vice president of the company who left NCR for HP intends to leak information pertaining to the ATM giant's financial services practice and other key areas.
In some cases, this data was related to projects in which HP was directly competing with NCR. Now NCR is seeking a preliminary injunction in Dayton federal court to bar the former executive from revealing these trade secrets to her new employer.
NCR claims the former exec downloaded sensitive documents off her NCR computer to multiple removable storage devices as she was set to change jobs. According to the article, earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Rose granted a temporary restraining order that restricts some business-related activities by Diane Warner, the executive at the heart of the controversy.
