Zoho Corporation PVT. LTD v. Freshworks, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ZOHO CORPORATION PVT. LTD, Case No. 20-cv-01869-VC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
FRESHWORKS, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 53 Defendant.
The motion to dismiss the second amended complaint is denied. As explained more fully in the hearing, Zoho has clearly met the standard for pleading trade secret misappropriation. The CRM is properly identified as a trade secret, and Zoho has alleged facts supporting a claim that Freshworks improperly accessed and used information contained within the CRM at least once, and that Zoho was harmed by that improper use. Space Data Corp. v. X, No 16-cv-03260-BLF, 2017 WL 5013363, at *1–2 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2017). This case is different from cases like Moreland Apartments v. LP Equity LLC, No. 5:19- cv-00744-EJD, 2019 WL 6771792 (N.D. Cal. 2019), where plaintiffs allege the theft of a variety of different trade secrets but fail to support one or more of those claims with sufficient factual allegations. There, it is appropriate to dismiss unsupported claims and allow the supported ones to go forward. Here, Zoho claims only that…