Court Revives Raytheon Claims Ex-Workers Stole Secrets

Aug. 8, 2012

By Susan Decker

U.S. defense contractor Raytheon Co. won an appeals court ruling that revives claims Flir Systems Inc. (FLIR)’s Indigo Systems unit lured away former workers to steal trade secrets related to infrared cameras.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today said a lower court erred in dismissing the case. It said the trial judge was wrong to rule that Raytheon should have known of any supposed theft before 2004, so it was too late to file the lawsuit in 2007.

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