Judge Affirms Discovery Ruling In Trade Secret Misappropriation Suit

Mealey's (May 22, 2019, 1:54 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A federal magistrate judge did not err in finding that a plaintiff in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against its competitor in the compact garden hose manufacturing industry correctly applied Delaware’s reasonable particularity rule in determining that the plaintiff had sufficiently identified the trade secrets it alleges were misappropriated with the necessary particularity, a federal judge in California ruled May 20 (Yeiser Research & Development LLC v. Teknor Apex Co., No. 17-1290, S.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141969)....