Sorry, the answer has nothing to do with Arkansas. The answer
is: they are both nauseatingly ripe for puns.
Two new cases caught my eye this week. First is a suit by
Unitherm against Hormel for misappropriation of the secrets of
pre-cooking sliced bacon. Of course pre-cooked bacon is one of this
century's highest achievements. Finally, you can enjoy bacon
for breakfast without having to risk being attacked by wild dogs or
offending people by the odor throughout the day. Short version is
that Hormel and Unitherm dated briefly while working together on a
magical oven that could change the world by steaming bacon.
As with all celebrity weddings, they split. Under the agreement
between the parties, Hormel owned the IP. Even still, somehow both
of them filed a patent application on the inventions stemming from
the research. So when Unitherm sued Hormel for misappropriating
trade secrets, it should have been no surprise to Unitherm that
when something is written in a
