Mealey's ( May 23, 2019, 9:11 AM EDT) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A defendant in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit brought by an Italian company against its former employee and its competitor asked a federal judge in Rhode Island on May 17 to grant it a new trial after a jury awarded the plaintiff $6.5 million in damages after finding that the defendants misappropriated certain of its trade secret information for its erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) analyzer technology (Alifax Holding SpA v. Alcor Scientific Inc., et al., No. 14-440, D. R.I.)....