A Jackson County circuit judge nearly slashed in half a $6.03 million verdict for a Kansas City company that makes and sells custom awards and promotional materials. In an Oct. 29 order, Judge John M. Torrence ruled that a punitive ...

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A Jackson County jury has awarded $6,037,541 in damages to a Kansas City small business that alleged a former employee took proprietary information to his new employer, a direct competitor. The jury returned the unanimous verdict May 6 for the ...

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Where in a dispute arose from an associate professor’s alleged failures to disclose his inventions or patent applications and to properly assign ownership of inventions resulting from his research to his university employer as required by the employment contract, the ...

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