The Chemical Abstracts division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) sued three software developers who left ACS to start their own company, Leadscope. ACS sued for trade secret misappropriation, alleging that the software developers used ACS trade secrets to develop their own product. The filing of the lawsuit scuttled several pending (very promising) deals that Leadscope was about to close

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