January 22, 2026
The Third Circuit on Thursday vacated a medical cannabis company's win in a lawsuit filed by a consultant claiming that it had stolen his trade secrets for growing marijuana samples, finding it couldn't decide the appeal because the parties' contract might have violated federal drug law.
February 07, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a consultant claiming that his methods for growing plant tissue samples was stolen by a medical cannabis company he worked with, ruling that the consultant's system was not a protected trade secret.
May 16, 2024
A Pennsylvania cannabis cultivator is asking a federal court to dismiss a suit claiming it broke an oral agreement with a consulting firm and continued to use the firm's trade secrets, saying no oral contract existed, nor was the firm's information trade secrets.
December 08, 2022
Maitri, a company that runs a Pittsburgh marijuana dispensary, swiped trade secrets from a biotech firm that specializes in plant propagation and withheld payment for laboratory consultation services before breaking their business deal, according to a new federal lawsuit.