Dismissal Of State, Federal Trade Secret Law Claims Denied

(November 22, 2017, 11:29 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A developer of flight control, aviation and information technologies has properly pleaded the elements of its state and federal trade secrets claims against a former employee who is alleged to have improperly downloaded and retained several of the company’s confidential and proprietary documents by stating what trade secret information was misappropriated, that the trade secret was, in fact, misappropriated and that the company was harmed as a result, a federal judge in California ruled Nov. 10 in denying the former employee’s motion to dismiss (Rockwell Collins Inc. v. Jacob Wallace, No. 17-1369, C.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 190361)....