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California federal court finds that plaintiff's claims are not preempted by the California Uniform Trade Secrets act in Farmville spat

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 9 2012

On February 6, 2012, a federal court in Oakland, California denied the popular Facebook application “Farmville” operator’s (Zynga, Inc.) motion to dismiss several claims brought by the inventor of “myFarm” (SocialApps, LLC, or “SA”)) for alleged theft of the source code, game images, and “concepts and features” used in the myFarm app