Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 13th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 5

Business Ethics. Mark Ramun worked as a manager for Allied Erecting and Dismantling Co., where he had a tense relationship with his father, who was Allied's president. After more than ten years, Mark left Allied, taking 15,000 pages of Allied's documents on DVDs and CDs, which constituted trade secrets. Later, he joined Allied's competitor, Genesis Equipment Manufacturing, Inc. Genesis soon developed a piece of equipment that incorporated elements of Allied equipment. How might business ethics have been violated in these circumstances? Discuss. [Allied Erecting and Dismantling Co. v. Genesis Equipment Manufacturing, Inc., 2013 WL 85907 (6th Cir. 2013)]