Careful, that Slice of Pizza You’re Eating Might Be Full of Trade Secrets. . .

Earlier this month, New York Pizzeria, Inc., a pizzeria chain with over thirty restaurants in the United States and the Middle East, filed a complaint in federal court in Texas alleging trade secret misappropriation.  New York Pizzeria alleged that a former employee, as well as individual restaurant owners, were conspiring to misappropriate its trade secrets for the purposes of creating a competing business.  According to New York Pizzeria’s allegations, a former employee and the owner of a competing business conspired to steal and use the company’s trade secrets.  The defendants allegedly used this unlawfully obtained information to start a competing franchise chain.

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