Mealey's (April 11, 2018, 1:49 PM EDT) -- GREENVILLE, N.C. — The plaintiff in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit against a former employee and a company he formed to compete with his former employer has sufficiently shown that it possessed certain trade secrets and that the defendants obtained and misappropriated those trade secrets in violation of state law, a federal judge in North Carolina ruled April 10 in substantially denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss (Redox Tech LLC v. Earthworks Solutions LLC, et al., No. 17-447, E.D. N.C., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60263)....