Magistrate Judge Recommends That Trade Secrets Complaint Be Substantially Denied

Mealey's (June 19, 2018, 11:25 AM EDT) -- DENVER — A live-music and entertainment company cannot seek damages against its former employee for violation of Colorado’s trade secret statute because, although it has shown that the former employee possessed the company’s trade secret information and obtained it by improper means, it has failed to plead actual misappropriation, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado ruled June 14 in recommending that the defendant’s motion to dismiss be granted in part and denied in part (KAABOOWorks Services LLC v. Brian Pilsl, No. 17-2530, D. Colo., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99931)....