INTELICLEAR, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ETC GLOBAL HOLDINGS, INC., Defendant-Appellee., 978 F.3d 653

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-The district court erred by awarding summary judgment to defendant on plaintiff's claims for trade secret misappropriations under the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act because there were triable issues of fact as to whether plaintiff described its alleged trade secrets with sufficient particularity, 18 U.S.C.S. § 1839, Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 2019.210, and showed that parts of its system were secret, § 1839(3), Cal. Civ. Code § 3426.1(d); the district court abused its discretion by issuing its summary judgment ruling before discovery occurred.