Sandwich Shop Owner Not Precluded From Bringing Properly Pleaded DTSA Claim

Mealey's (April 23, 2020, 1:45 PM EDT) -- JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The owner of a chain of sandwich shops has sufficiently shown that its secret sauce recipes, customer information and secret methods are trade secrets pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and that the chain’s former owner and related parties misappropriated those trade secrets when they opened a competing business, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled April 21 (Revzip LLC, et al. Michael McDonnell, et al., No. 19-191, W.D. Pa., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70140)....