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Memory's Tricks. The contenders in one case were the B. F. Goodrich Co.. developer, with the Navy, of the Mercury astronauts' suits, and International Latex Corp.. which recently underbid Goodrich on a NASA contract for Apollo moon-exploration space suits. In an Akron court, Goodrich asked that its former manager of space-suit engineering, Donald H. Wohlgemuth, be enjoined from taking a similar job at International Latex. Wohlgemuth, 36, had worked six years for Goodrich, rising after 15 pay increases to a salary of $10,600. Shortly after International Latex won its NASA contract...
Pointing out that Goodrich had 28 years' experience in pressure-suit design, Attorney Ray Jeter argued that Goodrich had taught Wohlgemuth whatever he knew about the subject and that it was for this knowledge that Latex wanted him. Goodrich conceded that Wohlgemuth carried away no written information. But, said Goodrich witnesses, he has a prodigious memory...
...rebuttal, Latex brought one of its employees into court in a space suit of its own design to prove that it needed no Goodrich secrets. Latex Attorney Richard Chenoweth scoffed at Goodrich's claim that Wohlgemuth was ''a key man.'' Said Chenoweth: "His pay was below the salary schedule of some labor classifications in his own division...
...both the Du Pont and Goodrich suits, the judges issued temporary restraining orders, then settled back to probe precedent before making final decisions. Many decisions seem to favor the complaining companies. In one 1944 case a New York court allowed a Fairchild aircraft vice president to go to work elsewhere but enjoined him for five years from any activity remotely linked to a then-secret Fairchild process for cooling aircraft engines. The problem of trade secrets has lately become more acute: much of today's corporate research is done under Government contract and hence cannot be patented. Often...
...Knapp and H.B. Goodrich, Origins of American Scientists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...