Trade Secret contract Breached: IIT Kharagpur in mess again

Once again IIT Kharagpur, is in news for violating trade secret norms and conditions. 

Yes!!!! This is true.

This case in the Northern District of California, US ,has taken a serious turn. IIT kharagpur and its affiliate technology incubation & entrepreneurship society(TIETS) is being made a party to a case versus another US firm.

The Trade secret contract was signed with IIT kharagpur in the year 2003 with Mandana D Farhang and her affiliate MA Mobile Limited. and it is being alleged to have breached the contract by proving the same information to IBM and Indian Railway. The disputed technology is related to " Mobile computing".

To remind you all that this is The only IIT, where an Law school in the name of Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual property Law. Having a school like this, which is well equipped with talented students as well as professors to handle any intellectual property issues/matters, it is not justified to commit an Err on this front.

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