(October 18, 2018, 2:19 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A health care provider sued its former global marketing product manager in Illinois federal court on Oct. 15, alleging that the defendant violated the terms of his employment agreement with the company and stole its marketing and global expansion “playbook,” intending to use it in his new employment position with the health care provider’s competitor in the chronic pain therapies market in violation of state and federal trade secrets law (Abbott Laboratories v. Blayne Fleck, No. 18-6907, N.D. Ill.)....