Mealey's (March 6, 2018, 10:17 AM EST) -- DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. has shown that its competitor and its U.S. distributor in the automobile diagnostics industry stole certain of its trade secret and copyrighted source code and used the information to reverse-engineer its competing diagnostic tools in violation of state and federal law and illegally used Ford’s trademarked logos in the process, a federal judge in Michigan ruled Feb. 26 in denying the defendants’ motions to dismiss (Ford Motor Co. v. Launch Tech Co. Ltd., No. 17-12906, E.D. Mich., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29923)....