Mealey's (June 13, 2018, 9:08 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on May 23 ruled that a company has failed to plead the necessary causation or damages required to state claims for breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation against Pepsico Inc. and several of its affiliates (collectively, Pepsi) for their alleged misappropriation of the company’s aroma release technology in developing their own in-house technology (ScentSational Technologies LLC v. Pepsico Inc., et al., No. 13-8645, S.D. N.Y., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91180)....