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The former employer applied to the Labor Court for an injunction prohibiting the employee from contacting those customers.   <\/p>\n<p>The Labor Court held that a distinction must be drawn between a list of customer names, which can generally be obtained from publicly available sources, and a database containing customer business profiles that includes additional non-public commercial information.<br \/>Such a business profile may constitute a trade secret where it provides its owner with a commercial advantage and is not publicly available. Accordingly, the former employee&#8217;s use of such information may amount to the unlawful misappropriation of a trade secret.  <\/p>\n<p>The court therefore issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the former employee from contacting the former employer&#8217;s customers for a specified period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The employee was employed as a sales representative and signed an individual employment agreement that included a confidentiality undertaking requiring him to protect the employer&#8217;s confidential information and trade secrets.After leaving his employment, the employee joined a competing company and began approaching customers whom he had serviced while working for his former employer. 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