David McGovern v. Pacific Bell
Published: May 14, 1994 | Result Date: Mar. 3, 1994 | Filing Date: Jan. 1, 1900 |Case number: 912650 – $6,146,000
Judge
Court
San Francisco Superior
Attorneys
Plaintiff
Defendant
Experts
Plaintiff
Tom Thomas
(technical)
William Beach
(technical)
Facts
Plaintiff David McGovern worked for Defendant Pacific Bell as a consultant from September of 1988 to the middle of January, 1989; he was a consultant in a Pacific Bell project. Plaintiff is an expert in the field of connectivity (i.e., developing access) to databases and specifically relational databases. Defendant was developing a new program called "customer software features translator." This utilized an oracle relational database, and they allegedly had a need for something such as Plaintiff's "relational access manager."
Settlement Discussions
Plaintiff contends his pretrial demand was $300,000; Defendant's pretrial offer was $50,000.
Damages
Plaintiff claimed preclusion from marketing his trade secret because Defendant compromised and misappropriated same; his claim for damages ranged from $2,500,000 to approximately $16,000,000.
Deliberation
1 day
Poll
10-2
Length
8 days
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