Company Disclosed Sufficient Details Of Trade Secrets Claim, Judge Rules

Mealey's (January 25, 2019, 12:21 PM EST) -- MEDFORD, Ore. — A federal magistrate judge in Oregon on Jan. 2 ruled that Rust-Oleum Corp.’s former business partner has sufficiently stated its counterclaim for a trade secret misappropriation under state law to provide Rust-Oleum “with a sufficient basis to frame its responsive pleading” in a declaratory judgment lawsuit (Rust-Oleum Corp. v. NIC Industries Inc., No. 18-1655, D. Ore., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1123)....