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US judge: Evidence Gilead ordered ex-employee to steal trade secret lacking

By Melissa Ritti ( May 1, 2025, 13:41 GMT | Insight) -- Gilead Sciences persuaded a Pennsylvania judge yesterday to reconsider his prior ruling that jurors should hear Blase Tucci’s claim he was instructed to steal a UPMC memo which potentially qualifies as a trade secret and terminated when his efforts came up short. Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan said he made a clear error of law in November 2024 when denying Gilead summary judgment on that wrongful termination theory, this time finding that “persistent requests and ongoing pressure” from a Gilead supervisor, even after being informed of the memo’s confidential nature, was not an order to obtain the memo by “unlawful means.”A fired Gilead Sciences salesman whose wrongful discharge claims against the biotech company emerged unscathed from summary judgment suffered a setback this week in US court....

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