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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 18:1836(a) - Injunction against Misappropriation of Trade Secrets

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

COLLATERAL ANALYTICS,

Plaintiff,

v.

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No.18-0019 RS (JSC) 

ORDER REGARDING 

COUNTERCLAIM DISPUTE

Dkt. No. 110

Now pending before the Court is the parties’ joint discovery letter regarding a dispute as to 

Defendants’ use of its review of Plaintiff’s source code to assert trade secret misappropriation 

counterclaims. (Dkt. No. 110.) Plaintiff insists that because it provided its source code to 

Defendants to facilitate Defendants’ understanding of Plaintiff’s trade secret claims, Defendants 

are precluded from using what they learned in the review to assert their own trade secret claims. 

While the district court, and not this Court, will decide whether to grant Defendants leave to 

amend to assert the trade secret counterclaims, as a discovery matter this Court declines to impose 

the limitation urged by Plaintiff. Plaintiff does not identify any agreement that limited the use 

Defendants could make of what they learned and there is nothing in the record that suggests that 

Defendants intentionally made any misrepresentations to Plaintiff, by omission or otherwise. 

Plaintiff’s reliance on Jardin v. DATAllegro, Inc., No. 10-CV-2552-IEG (WVG), 2011 WL 

3299395, at *5 (S.D. Cal. July 29, 2011) fails to persuade this Court. There the plaintiff learned 

information in a 2008 case that was covered by a protective order that restricted the plaintiff from 

using the information outside the case. Id. at * 1. No such protective order exists here. 

Accordingly, Plaintiff’s request is denied. 

This Order disposes of Docket No. 110.

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 1, 2018

JACQUELINE SCOTT CORLEY

United States Magistrate Judge

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