Judge: Plaintiff Has Not Shown That Customer Breached Duty Of Confidentiality

(December 29, 2017, 12:19 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — Judgment on the pleadings in a breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit is warranted because a company has failed to show that its former customer breached its duty of confidentiality when it shared information with another company as part of a new licensing agreement, a federal judge in Washington ruled Dec. 27 in granting the company’s motion with leave to amend (Inteum Co. LLC v. National University of Singapore, No. 17-1252, W.D. Wash., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 212095)....