Dallas Jury Awards Global Water Group, Inc. $1 Million in Trade Secrets Case

(Dallas) Global Water Group, Inc., a Dallas-based water purification equipment manufacturer, was awarded $1 million in damages in a trade secrets case.

In its November 14 verdict, a jury in Dallas’ 116th District Court found that Robert Atchley and his company, Aspen Water, Inc., were part of a conspiracy to use Global Water Group’s technology.

In 1990, Mr. Atchley founded and became president of Global Water Technologies, Inc. In 1995, Global Water Group acquired the assets, trade secrets and intellectual properties of Global Water Technologies. In 1999, Mr. Atchley formed Aspen Water and began to manufacture water purification systems.

“Our society expects—and our laws require—honesty and integrity in business dealings,” says Scott E. Hayes, trial counsel to Global Water and a partner in Dallas’ Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox. “My client and I are grateful to the jury for upholding those values.”

“Global Water prides itself not just on the quality of its work and its leading-edge technology, but also on its ethical business practices,” says Alan Weiss, President of Global Water Group. “We are pleased to be able to get back to the business of providing water purification services at a time when it has never been more needed.”

Global Water provides state-of-the-art water purification technology to U.S. Military Special Forces, the Florida National Guard, FEMA, the U.S. Department of State, the SeaBees, and various other units of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The company also provided water purification facilities to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

For more information about Global Water Group, Inc., visit www.globalwater.com. Global Water’s updated website reflects a new and greater scope of both systems design and state-of-the-art technology in mobile, military water purification, desalination, wastewater-processing and wastewater-effluent recycling systems.