Mealey's ( September 16, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Sept. 13 denied a software company’s motion to dismiss counterclaims for violation of state and federal trade secrets laws filed by its competitor and several former employees, rejecting the company’s assertion that the trade secret counterclaims fail for the same reasons that its trade secret misappropriation claims were found to be deficient in a previous ruling (Vendavo Inc. v. Price f(x) AG, et al., No. 17-6930, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157062)....