Mealey's (January 25, 2019, 12:13 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A federal district court erred in preliminarily enjoining franchisees from operating or taking part in any business that competes with or is similar to an ice cream parlor franchise with which the franchisees had franchise agreements based on the franchisor’s claim for trade secret misappropriation because the court erred in finding that the franchisor had shown a sufficient likelihood of success on the merits of its misappropriation claim, the franchisees argue in a Sept. 28 appellant brief filed in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Handel’s Enterprises Inc. v. Kenneth S. Schulenburg, et al., No. 18-3596, 6th Cir.)....