Federal Trade Secret Misappropriation Claim Found To Be Insufficient

Mealey's (March 27, 2018, 1:51 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A software company has failed to provide sufficient detail to show that its competitor and several former employees violated the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) by misappropriating its trade secret information to get its competing product to market before the company, a federal judge in California ruled March 23 in granting in part a defendant’s motion to dismiss (Vendavo Inc. v. Price f[x] AG, et al., No. 17-6930, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48637)....