Judge:  Tech Company Failed To Show Trade Secrets Derived Economic Value

Mealey's (May 29, 2020, 12:06 PM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California on May 26 ruled that a manufacturer of hardware, software and other electronic devices and its related company have sufficiently pleaded state and federal trade secret law claims against only certain defendants because although the plaintiff had adequately alleged that it owned the trade secrets the defendants’ allegedly misappropriated, it has failed to show the independent economic value of all of the trade secrets at issue (Cisco Systems Inc., et al. v. Wilson Chung, et al., No. 19-7562, N.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92497)....