Mealey's (November 21, 2017, 3:12 PM EST) -- DENVER — Dismissal of a company’s conversion claim in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit against a former employee is not warranted at this stage of the litigation because the former employee has failed to show that the conversion claim is dependent on a finding of “trade secret status,” a federal judge in Colorado ruled Nov. 17 in denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss (Abbott Laboratories v. Dustin Finkel, No. 17-0894, D. Colo., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 190173)....