Mealey's (September 20, 2019, 12:05 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A manufacturer of new battery technologies sued its Chinese competitor on Sept. 16 in California federal court, alleging that the competitor engaged in a scheme to poach one of the manufacturer’s key employees and misappropriate the company’s confidential and trade secret information for its lithium-ion battery separators in violation of state and federal trade secret laws (Celgard LLC v. Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Co. Ltd. [US] Research Institute, et al., No. 19-5784, N.D. Calif.)....