Jury Awards Company $6.5M In Damages In Trade Secrets Dispute

Mealey's (May 6, 2019, 2:56 PM EDT) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal jury in Rhode Island on May 3 awarded an Italian company $6.5 million in damages after finding that its former employee and competitor misappropriated certain of its trade secret information for its erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) analyzer technology (Alifax Holding SpA v. Alcor Scientific Inc., et al., No. 14-440, D. R.I.)....