Trade Secret Claims In Online Auction Company's Suit Survive Dismissal Bid

Mealey's (July 28, 2020, 11:08 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey on July 23 substantially denied a motion to dismiss filed by an online auction solutions provider's founder and former owner and a competing company that he formed in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit, rejecting the defendants' argument that the plaintiff failed to sufficiently specify what confidential and proprietary information the founder is alleged to have misappropriated when he formed the competing online auction business (Sandhills Global Inc. v. Lawrence Garafola, et al., No. 19-20669, D. N.J., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130674)....