Mealey's (August 2, 2017, 2:22 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A plaintiff in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit has shown that a former employee and a competitor company misappropriated the plaintiffs’ trade secrets and that the plaintiff’s trade secrets were used in interstate commerce in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act, a federal judge in Illinois ruled July 31 in denying the defendants’ motions to dismiss (Wells Lamont Industry Group LLC v. Richard Mendoza, et al., No. 17-1136, N.D. Ill., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 119854)....