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Atrua Adds Trade Secret Theft by Authentec to Lawsuit

By: Marc Ostrowski Authentec Theft Disclosed in Lawsuit's Legal Discovery Process. Atrua Technologies announced today that it has asked the United States District Court to issue an injunction against Authentec, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUTH) due to their misappropriation of Atrua's trade secrets from facilities of prospective customers on multiple occasions. Information about the trade secret theft came to light recently in the course of the legal discovery process in ongoing patent disputes between the companies. "We are very concerned that the competitive process has been and will continue to be seriously compromised," commented Anthony Gioeli on behalf of Atrua. "Atrua is committed to taking whatever steps we can to ensure that competition will be fair and that our technology will not be taken by our competitors. To continue reading this interesting article from Webwire, click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).