State, Federal Trade Secrets Law Claims Survive Defendant’s Attempt To Dismiss

Mealey's (February 13, 2018, 9:36 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A pharmaceutical company has shown that a former employee violated state and federal trade secrets law by providing the company’s confidential and trade secret information to its competitor, but it has failed to show that her actions were in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) because she had permission to access the information on the company’s computers, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Jan. 30 in granting in part and denying in part motions to dismiss filed by defendants (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Barinder Sandhu, et al., No. 17-3031, E.D. Pa., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14470)....