Plaintiff Pleaded Elements Of Federal Trade Secrets Claim, Federal Judge Rules

Mealey's (October 20, 2017, 11:23 AM EDT) -- CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia on Oct. 16 ruled that the co-owner of a software developer may bring a federal trade secret misappropriation claim against his co-owner, a former employee and others because the plaintiff has sufficiently pleaded the elements of his claim in alleging that the defendants misappropriated software code for two LLCs they stated (Todd Hawkins v. Jonathan B. Fishbeck, et al., No. 17-0032, W.D. Va., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 170678)....