Medimpact Gets Mixed Ruling on Claim Iqvia Stole Trade Secrets

An international arbitrator’s findings that Medimpact Healthcare Systems Inc.’s trade secrets underpinning a platform for automating pharmaceutical benefits management services are “protectable intellectual property” and were stolen by a company controlled by Iqvia Inc. applies to Medimpact’s case against Iqvia, a California federal judge ruled.

Because the legal standards “for protectability and misappropriation that the arbitrator applied are substantially similar” to the Defend Trade Secrets Act in the California case, “the court concludes the arbitrator’s rulings on these issues were actually litigated and determined and conclusive in this case,” Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel wrote in an opinion Thursday in the ...