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| Roquette v. A.E. Staley, Tate & Lyle plc et al. |
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Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc.
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| Winston & Strawn represented Tate & Lyle plc, a UK company, and its domestic subsidiary Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc. in a case filed by French company Roquette Freres and its American subsidiary Roquette America, Inc. The plaintiff originally filed a theft of trade secrets suit in Iowa state court alleging that our client had wrongfully received misappropriated trade secrets as the result of the recruitment of a former Roquette executive. After our attorneys fought back a preliminary injunction in Iowa, the plaintiffs abandoned their Iowa case and filed a new case in New York federal court alleging RICO and Lanham Act violations as well as state law misappropriation and other claims, and seeking damages in excess of $100 million. We obtained a dismissal of the New York action, and in September 2005, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the dismissal. |
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