After Two Years of Research and the Investment of Considerable

question 65

Essay

After two years of research and the investment of considerable funds,Coast-to-Coast Company (CC) develops a new product that it hopes will produce substantial profits.CC learns that a competitor,National Sales,Inc.,has made and begun to sell a nearly identical prod-uct.CC learns from a reliable source that National paid a CC employee to obtain the plans for CC's product while it was in development.What legal re-course does CC have against National?

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