State, Federal Trade Secret Claims Allowed To Proceed In Misappropriation Suit

Mealey's (October 29, 2020, 12:08 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A provider of web-based business software and information technology tools has sufficiently pleaded its state and federal trade secret law claims against an industry competitor alleged to have misappropriated the provider’s trade secrets to unfairly compete with it by properly identifying the trade secrets and showing how the defendant used them to compete with the plaintiff, a federal judge in California ruled Oct. 27 (Zoho Corp. Pvt. Ltd. v. Freshworks Inc., No. 20-1869, N.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 199917)....