S.C. High Court: Plaintiffs Failed To Plead Elements Of Trade Secrets Claim

(June 4, 2020, 2:13 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina trial court did not err in ruling that a company failed to sufficiently show that its former member and two companies for which he worked violated the state’s trade secret law when he removed certain of the company’s trade secrets contained on two company-owned laptops and a Blackberry device because the company failed to show that the trade secrets had the required independent economic value for a showing of trade secret misappropriation, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled June 3 (David Wilson v. John Gandis, et al., No. 27980, S.C. Sup., 2020 S.C. 88)....

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