trade secrets

Man faces four new counts of wire fraud for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the chip maker while working for competitor Advanced Micro Devices.

An arbitrator rules in favor of Henrik Fisker's design firm, which had been accused by Tesla Motors of stealing design information on a rival electric sedan.

IBM is suing executive Mark Papermaster, vice president of the company’s blade server development unit, to prevent his move to Apple.

LimitNone, a small software development company, is seeking nearly $1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the small company and misappropriating its trade secrets for its Google Apps online service.

Specifically, the suit concerns LimitNone software called gMove designed to let ...

Internet ad site Craigslist countersues eBay, alleging it used its minority stake to steal trade secrets.

Question: I have a continuing debate with a classmate of mine regarding why a financial adviser does not include calculations/spreadsheets when determining asset allocation.

My classmate claims it is trade secrets. I claim that the adviser doesn't know how to do/explain the calculations and blindly plugs the client's financial information in a system and reports the answer.

Who do you think is right?