DTSA Claim In Trade Secrets Dispute Survives Motion To Dismiss

Mealey's (May 3, 2019, 2:08 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A semiconductor producer has sufficiently pleaded its claim for misappropriation of trade secrets in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) against a Taiwanese Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) products manufacturer by alleging that the defendant misappropriated its DRAM product trade secrets in patent applications and using those trade secrets in its manufacturing activities in China, a federal judge in California ruled May 2 (Micron Technology Inc. v. United Microelectronics Corp., et al., No. 17-6932, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74527)....