Case summary: A company TI develops and makes electronic control devices called stun guns. The company also makes a personal video and audio recording device called TASER CAM. A person SW is TI’s vice president of marketing. The person SW made his own business plan of marketing a clip-on camera and formed a company V, and thereafter resigned from the company TI. The company TI launched a new product A after ten months of the resignation of SW. The company TI filed a suit against SW in an Arizona state court alleging that he is liable for breach of loyalty to TI. The court granted summary judgment in favor of the company TI.
To find: The liability of SW when the product of SW is different from the product of TI.
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