( October 1, 2026, 9:12 AM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas rejected in part a magistrate’s report recommending dismissal of an oil and gas engineering, consulting and staffing company’s claims alleging misappropriation of trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (TUTSA) against an oil and gas exploration and production company and its employee, holding that the plaintiff has sufficiently alleged that its trade secrets relate to a product or service in interstate commerce....