State, Federal Trade Secret Claims Found Not To Be Related To Patent Case

Mealey's (September 4, 2018, 2:26 PM EDT) -- LAS VEGAS — Ruling that a company that designs, builds and operates data centers has sufficiently shown that its state and federal trade secret misappropriation claims do not encompass the same alleged actions as those in a federal patent case against mutual defendants, a federal judge in Nevada on Aug. 30 denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendants in the trade secrets lawsuit (Switch Ltd. v. Stephen Fairfax, et al., No. 17-2651, D. Nev., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148818)....