8. Question: DatagraphiX manufactured and sold computer graphics equipment that allowed users to transfer large volumes...

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8. Question: DatagraphiX manufactured and sold computer graphics equipment that allowed users to transfer large volumes of information directly from computers to microfilm. Customers were required to keep maintenance documentation on-site for the DatagraphiX service personnel. The service manual carried this legend: "No other use, direct or indirect, of this document or of any information derived therefrom is authorized. No copies of any part of this document shall be made without written approval by DatagraphiX." Additionally, on every page of the maintenance manual the company placed warnings that the information was proprietary and not to be dupli- cated. Frederick J. Lennen left DatagraphiX to start his own company that serviced Datagraphix equipment. Can Datagraphix prevent Lennen from using its manuals? Strategy: With trade secrets, the key is that the owner has made a reasonable effort to protect them. (See the "Result" at the end of this section.)