Chinese Company Must Detail Trade Secrets TikTok Allegedly Stole

A Chinese tech company accusing TikTok Inc. of copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation must provide the social media giant with more specifics about its claims for the case to proceed.

Beijing Meishe Network Technology Co.'s attempts to identify allegedly misappropriated trade secrets and copyrighted source code are incomplete, according to an order issued Feb. 7 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Though Beijing Meishe produced millions of lines of source code allegedly containing its trade secrets, the appointed special master Kendall J. Newman said “defendants should not have to guess what trade alleged secrets ...