Helen is the vice-president of gotspeed corporation, a company that designs, manufactures and sells sports shoes. nestor, an independent entrepreneur, designs a new shoe that helps the user's foot grip the shoe better, and he calls it the anklator. nestor's friend schedules an appointment for him to meet helen and present the anklator for possible adoption by gotspeed. instead of presenting the opportunity to gotspeed's board of directors, helen pays nestor's asking price and purchases the anklator design for herself. she then quits and forms her own company to manufacture and sell anklator shoes. helen has breached her duty of loyalty to gotspeed corporation by .