Former employee use and modification

Company is owner of a software program. It uses copyright and trade secret protection for the software. Software is licensed to a few customers a year and is customized for each customer. A former employee starts up a business of servicing Company's customers. Services include seting up the software for various modes of operation, modifying the source code of the data, and running the software to test set-up and modifications. Company's agreements with its customers extend rights to use and modify source - only to customer's employees (in rare instances, customer agreements provide contractors can work on the software if the contractor enters a seperate agreement with Company to do so). Former employee has not entered any agreement wich Company permitting such use or modification. Former employee actions include taking Company source code installed at Customer A and installing it at Customer B. What causes of action are supported by these facts? What additional facts should be looked for to support what other causes of action?

Val Dietrich
Los Angeles
dietrich[_at_]earthlink.net Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 15:10:35 GMT