Proofpoint, Inc. v. Vade Secure, Incorporated

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PROOFPOINT, INC., et al., Case No. 19-cv-04238-MMC

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' v. MOTION TO DISMISS

COUNTERCLAIMS; AFFORDING

VADE SECURE, INCORPORATED, et DEFENDANTS LEAVE TO AMEND al., 11 Defendants.

12 Before the Court is plaintiffs Proofpoint, Inc. ("Proofpoint") and Cloudmark LLC's ("Cloudmark") Motion, filed September 18, 2020, "to Dismiss Vade Defendants' Counterclaims." Defendants Vade Secure, Incorporated and Vade Secure SASU (collectively, "Vade Defendants") have filed opposition, to which plaintiffs have replied. Having read and considered the papers filed in support of and in opposition to the motion, the Court rules as follows.1 The Vade Defendants' "Answer, Affirmative and Other Defenses, and Counterclaims to the First Amended Complaint" ("Counterclaims") contains six counterclaims, each of which is based on allegations that Cloudmark made false statements about the Vade Defendants to…