Mealey's ( November 21, 2019, 2:11 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington on Nov. 19 ruled that the owner of trade secrets pertaining to a unique baseball pitching methodology has sufficiently alleged that his methodology was a protectable trade secret that he took reasonable efforts to maintain and that the operator of a competing business misappropriated those trade secrets after receiving the information while attending one of the plaintiff’s camps (Neiman Nix v. Kyle Boddy, et al. , No. 18-992, W. D. Wash. , 2019 U. S. Dist. LEXIS 200702). . . .