Misappropriation Claims Trimmed Against Defendants In Trade Secrets Dispute

Mealey's (September 18, 2018, 3:51 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A federal judge in California on Sept. 17 ruled that although an online retailer has sufficiently identified certain trade secrets that former employees, distributors and executives of the company are alleged to have misappropriated, it has failed to do so with others the defendants are alleged to have misappropriated when they started a competing company (Youngevity International, et al. v. Todd Smith, et al., No. 16-704, S.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158399)....