(August 22, 2019, 1:31 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Aug. 21 ruled that a preliminary injunction in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit is warranted to “maintain the status quo” because the plaintiff in the action has sufficiently shown that certain of its former employees and the competing company they started misappropriated the plaintiff’s trade secrets and that their continued misrepresentation will harm the company (Pacific Netsoft Inc. v. SkillSource Learning Partners LLC, et al., No. 19-3808, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142329)....