Zynga Sues Former Employee For Trade Secret Theft While Defending Its Acquisition Of Other Alleged Proprietary Information

On October 12, 2012, Zynga, a major provider of social game services based in San Francisco, filed suit against its former general manager of its highly successful CityVille game, Alan Patmore. Zynga alleges that Patmore, after allegedly refusing to acknowledge his confidentiality obligations, wandered out of the offices of Zynga with 760 computer files, which he uploaded to his personal Dropbox account. Adding fuel to the fire, Patmore then allegedly attempted to uninstall Dropbox from his computer, leaving forensic artifacts in his wake. Included in the allegedly copied files were:

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