PPG INDUSTRIES, INC. v. JIANGSU TIE MAO GLASS CO., LTD.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA PPG INDUSTRIES, INC., ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) 2:15-cv-00965 ) JIANGSU TIE MAO GLASS CO., LTD., ) et al, ) ) Defendants. ) OPINION Mark R. Hornak, Chief United States District Judge In February 2015, PPG Industries, Inc., learned that one of its former employees stole and then sold multi-million-dollar trade secrets to Jiangsu Tie Mao Glass Company (“TMG”), a Chinese competitor of PPG. PPG would go on to learn that TMG engaged in a years-long effort to obtain its proprietary information from the former employee in…