Mealey's (March 6, 2018, 1:58 PM EST) -- DENVER — Because a plaintiff failed to show that it directly provided confidential and trade secret information to another company that eventually filed a patent application using the plaintiff’s trade secrets, a federal district court did not err in finding that the plaintiff failed to state a claim for trade secret misappropriation, a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 2 in affirming the lower court’s ruling (N8 Medical Inc., et al. v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., No. 17-4049, 10th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 5398)....