Sufficient Claims In Scanner Developer’s Trade Secret Suit Survive Dismissal Bid

Mealey's (January 9, 2020, 12:36 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Jan. 7 ruled that a producer and seller of hand-held X-ray scanners used by law enforcement and security professionals sufficiently pleaded claims against a former employee and direct competitor in a breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation lawsuit alleging that the former employee misappropriated the company’s trade secrets for an imaging device to develop a competing product after leaving the company and forming the competing business (Viken Detection Corp. v. Videray Technologies Inc., et al., No. 19-10614, D. Mass. 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2138)....