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Superior Court Jury Renders $839,423
Verdict in Trade-Secrets Litigation

By Robert Storace

A New London Superior Court
New London Superior Court jury has Charles River Analytics president Karen Harper
ordered Cambridge, Massachusetts-based was on the stand for three days of the four-week
Charles River Analytics Inc. to pay $839,423 trial, while LBI founder and president Peter Legnos
plus punitive damages to a small Groton-based re- testified for about five days.
search and design and development company in a “Peter came across to the jury as utterly sincere,
trade-secrets theft case. somewhat eccentric and as a very bright victim,”
In a case that examines how defendant Charles according to LBI counsel James Robertson Jr., of
River Analytics treated, worked and possibly collud- Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey. “I think
ed with two former employees of plaintiff LBI Inc., Peter telling his personal story and the LBI story
the lead counsel for LBI told the Connecticut Law helped sway the jury.”
Tribune on Tuesday he believes the case hinged on Meanwhile, Robertson said Harper “was very
the testimony of the presidents of the two companies. well-prepared and almost robotic.”

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