Competitor Not Entitled To New Trial In Trade Secrets Lawsuit, Company Argues

Mealey's (April 20, 2020, 8:03 PM EDT) -- TAMPA, Fla. — A technology company’s industry competitor is not entitled to a new trial after a jury found that it had misappropriated the company’s trade secrets to develop identical systems to those developed by the plaintiff because the competitor has incorrectly argued that such action is warranted if a federal district court determines that any of the company’s trade secrets are not protectable, the company argues in an April 16 opposition brief filed in Florida federal court (Financial Information Technologies Inc. v. iControl Systems USA LLC, No. 17-190, M.D. Fla.)....