State, Federal Trade Secret Law Claims Survive Motion To Dismiss

Mealey's (August 10, 2018, 2:24 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A sperm bank has sufficiently alleged that it took reasonable measures to protect its confidential and proprietary information and that the information derives the company’s economic value from not being “generally known to other companies in the industry,” as required under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), a federal judge in Washington ruled Aug. 9 in granting in part and denying part a competitor and two former employees’ motion to dismiss (Seattle Sperm Bank LLC v. Cryobank America LLC, et al., No. 17-1487, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134668)....