Mealey's (February 26, 2020, 12:29 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A federal judge in California on Feb. 24 ruled that a company has failed to show that there is a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of its claims for trade secret misappropriation under state and federal law because although it has identified its trade secrets, it has failed to show that its co-founder and an industry competitor misappropriated those trade secrets in filing a patent application (Javo Beverage Co. Inc. v. California Extraction Ventures Inc., et al., No. 19-1859, S.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31167)....