California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's case against the defendant for misappropriation of its trade secrets of an anti-viral protein based therapeutic used as a daily nasal spray for the prevention and treatment of the common cold, plaintiff's petition for a writ of mandate to compel the trial court to accept plaintiff's trade secret identification statement as sufficient and to allow it to commence discovery is denied where: 1) the trial court applied the correct legal standard to plaintiff's trade secret identification statement; and 2) there was a basis in the record to support the court's conclusion that the statement was not reasonably particular under the circumstances presented.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2009
• Published 11/05/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kirby Noonan Lance & Hoge, Michael L. Kirby, Jacob M. Slania, San Diego, and Julianne Hull, for Petitioner., Fish & Richardson, Nancy L. Stagg, and Olga I. May, San Diego, for Real Parties in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.