Cases & Deals

GTAT protects trade secrets, obtains restraining order against former employee

Client(s) GTAT Corporation

Jones Day assisted GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT), a leader in providing technology solutions to the solar industry, in pursuing claims of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contracts against a former employee when he departed the company after over a decade of exposure to its trade secrets and confidential information. GTAT also obtained a temporary restraining order against the former employee, and after some hard-fought litigation, a settlement preventing the former employee from unfairly using its technology solutions in his future business endeavors.

GTAT Corporation v. Fero, No. 9:17-cv-00055 (D. Mont.)