Mealey's (July 3, 2018, 11:57 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 2 ruled that an investment management firm failed to show that a competitor misappropriated its trade secret information used to develop a volatility-based trading index because it failed to plead with sufficient particularity what trade secret information was allegedly misappropriated (Freeman Investment Management Co. LLC v. Frank Russell Co., No. 16-56511, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 18026)....