( October 17, 2019, 1:42 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A manufacturer of peptides and peptide-related molecules sued a former employee and a direct competitor in California federal court on Oct. 14, alleging that the defendants misappropriated the company’s trade secrets for its proprietary “Global Quality System” in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and common law (PolyPeptide Laboratories Inc. v. Brant Zell, et al., No. 19-8820, C.D. Calif.)....