Eurofins Electrical and Electronic Testing NA, LLC v. SGS North America Inc.

I. BACKGROUND

22 Eurofins alleges the following. Eurofins is a testing company that operates a wireless 23 testing services laboratory in Santa Clara. Compl. ¶ 1. Eurofins alleges that its former employees, 24 Defendants Jose Eleazar Zuniga Juarez (“Juarez”) and Duong Duong (“Duong”) (collectively,

26 1 Eurofins also filed a Motion for Expedited Discovery, ECF No. 4, which counsel for Eurofins and SGS indicated at the September 12, 2024, status conference may be resolved through stipulation. The Court therefore defers ruling on the Motion for Expedited Discovery at this time. “Individual Defendants”), misappropriated its trade secret information and shared it with Eurofins’s competitor, SGS, so that SGS could open its own wireless testing laboratory in Santa Clara. See id. Juarez and Duong have since left Eurofins and are currently employed at SGS. Id. ¶ 6. Eurofins learned this information when it found Juarez’s personal email account still signed into Eurofins’s company computer after he quit to work for SGS. Id. ¶ 7. In this personal email account, Eurofins found messages sent from Juarez, Duong, and another service provider, Gary 7…