Mealey's (June 19, 2019, 2:01 PM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A federal judge in California on June 18 ruled that dismissal of a state law claim for trade secret misappropriation is not appropriate based on individuals’ roles as agents of the plaintiff’s direct competitor, rejecting the defendants’ argument that the plaintiff failed to sufficiently show that the competitor acquired its trade secrets from someone other than the plaintiff itself (Deerpoint Group Inc. v. Agrigenix LLC, No. 18-536, E.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101908)....