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Jawbone recently announced that Fitbit is under investigation by a criminal grand jury for theft of trade secrets. The statement was made in a court filing and according to Bloomberg, Fitbit denied the allegations and said they’re ‘without merit’. Fitbit and Jawbone have been involved in legal spats for quite some time now, in May 2015, Jawbone accused its rival of taking ahold of proprietary information from its employees. Fitbit rejected the allegations, saying that the US International Trade Commission in Washington already rejected the trade secret claims in October. Jawbone responded and said that the government agency only looked at a limited number of claims against Fitbit and even lacked the authority to consider s... ...