Khatilov

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TESLA, INC., Case No. 4:21-cv-00528-YGR

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE MOTION FOR

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER;

v. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE; AND

EVIDENCE PRESERVATION ORDER

ALEX KHATILOV, Defendant. Re: Dkt. No. 3

12 Plaintiff Tesla, Inc. has filed an ex parte motion for a temporary restraining order to restrain defendant Alex Khatilov from disseminating trade secrets that Khatilov allegedly stole from Tesla during his two-week employment at Tesla. (Dkt. No. 3.) According to the moving papers,2 Khatilov purportedly saved approximately 26,377 files relating to Quality Assurance computer scripts and transferred them to his personal cloud storage account on Dropbox, beginning just three days after his employment at Tesla commenced. When confronted with these unauthorized downloads, Khatilov was allegedly evasive, by deleting the Dropbox desktop application and by being intentionally slow to respond to…