Mealey's (September 22, 2020, 1:08 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — In a revised opinion, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 17 ruled that a Texas federal court did not err in finding that a company did not use its former employee's patented and trade secret technology to develop a competing product because although the proclaimed legal issue raised by the former employee and the company he formed was a factual one, the plaintiffs "failed to carry their burden of proof at trial" (In the Matter of: ATOM Instrument Corp., No. 19-20151, 5th Cir., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30065)....