Company’s Insufficiently Pleaded Federal Trade Secret Claim Dismissed

Mealey's (March 30, 2020, 1:49 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A federal judge in California held that a semiconductor company failed to sufficiently plead the existence of any trade secret that it alleges four former employees misappropriated or that the former employees actually misappropriated the trade secret in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) when they left their positions with the company to accept similar positions with an industry competitor (Power Integrations Inc. v. Edison D. De Lara, No. 20-410, S.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52724)....