Claims In Misappropriation Of Trade Secrets Lawsuit Substantially Denied

(December 13, 2017, 2:46 PM EST) -- OKLAHOMA CITY — A land services company that works primarily with the oil and gas industries has shown that certain of its former employees and the competing company they formed violated state and federal trade secret misappropriation laws by removing certain of its confidential and trade secrets information from servers and misappropriating it for the benefit of their competing company, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Dec. 8 in granting in part and denying in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss (Blue Star Land Services LLC, et al. v. Theo C. Coleman, et al., No. 17-931, W.D. Okla., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 202396)....