Fire ‘Em Up (FEU) brought a suit including claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation against multiple defendants. The trade secret misappropriation claims pertain to misappropriation of customer lists, supplier lists, as well as materials necessary to create FEU’s product, and software technology which is known to only one of FEU’s employees, software developer Jeffrey Bach.
FEU voluntarily dismissed claims against Intigreen Technologies, Inc. on February 24, 2011 and against David Shea, Peter Gordon, and Jeffrey Buecheler on March 16, 2011. The remaining defendants, Technocarb Equipment (2004) Ltd. and Aurora Electronics, Ltd. filed an answer on April 11, 2011 containing affirmative defenses and counterclaims, as well as a motion to dismiss FEU’s claims of trade secret misappropriation, conversion, fraud and accounting. FEU, in turn, filed on May 16, 2011 a motion to dismiss the defendants’ counterclaims for deficiencies.