Next 2021 case in the que: CAUSE NUMBER: 19-2774; Hays County Texas
This litigation filed November 12, 2019 in Hays County (San Marcos) alleged misappropriation of trade secrets and related claims based on Quantum Material Corp’s (“QMC” or “Company”) hiring of a previous employee of the Plaintiff (Practice Interactive, Inc. d/b/a Intiva Health “Intiva”). Intiva initiated the case by securing a no-notice temporary restraining order against the Company and the employee (“Hartigan”).
At a temporary injunction hearing in December 2019, the court granted a limited injunction against Hartigan and found that it should not enjoin the Company. The court set the bond at $50,000: Intiva never took action to post the bond; thus, the injunction never went into effect. The order also set the case for trial in July 2021. We believe that trial will most likely not go forward in July. Although the parties agreed in December that discovery can move forward without a firm trial date, Intiva has propounded no discovery or taken any other substantive action since then. Counsel for Intiva recently changed firms, a fact that we believed contributed to his client taking no action of late. He filed a change-of-firm notice with the Court recently, and we anticipate there will soon be activity in the case.
