By: David Clark

On February 24, 2010, in a pending lawsuit filed by polypropylene compound manufacturer RheTech, Inc., alleging that former employee Robert Joyce and his new company stole trade secrets and filed an unauthorized application for a patent on a wood-plastic composite on which Joyce had worked while at RheTech, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order dismissing all state law claims as against the defendants for lack of diversity jurisdiction.

RheTech alleged a federal claim for false advertising in violation of 15 U.S.C. §1125(a)(1)(A) and (B), and state law claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and quiet title to invention.

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