9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Anheuser-Busch Trade Secrets Dispute

Mealey's (September 14, 2018, 1:53 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos. LLC and Anheuser-Busch LLC (collectively, AB) failed to provide any admissible evidence of a trade secret and failed to show that it took reasonable measures to protect the secrecy of its brewer’s recipe in bringing its trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against a former employee, an attorney for the former employee told a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 13 during oral arguments (James A. Clark v. Anheuser-Busch Companies LLC, et al., No. 17-15591, 9th Cir.)....