Mealey's ( May 9, 2019, 2:19 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — In an unpublished opinion, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 8 ruled that a federal district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendants’ motion for an award of attorney fees in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit because those claims were brought in good faith (Akira Technologies Inc. v. Conceptant Inc., et al., No. 18-1655, 4th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13769)....