July 25, 2016
A Minnesota federal judge on Monday trimmed breach of contract claims between Hormel Food Corp. and Oklahoma-based Unitherm Food Services, but left unresolved a dispute over who owns a pre-cooked bacon process they both say they developed and for which Hormel filed a patent application after terminating a joint agreement.
January 28, 2015
An Oklahoma company that's suing Hormel Food Corp. in Minnesota federal court for allegedly ripping off a special process for cooking bacon was reminded Tuesday of an "axiomatic" limitation to intellectual property law: A patented idea cannot also be a trade secret.