Mealey's ( September 4, 2020, 2:30 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 3 dismissed as moot an appeal of a Missouri federal court's issuance of a permanent injunction in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against a consulting and sales for optimization services and software products provider's former employee and an industry competitor, ruling that the terms of the permanent injunction have expired because the appellants failed to seek a stay of the injunction before filing their appeal (Perficient Inc. v. Thomas Munley, et al., No. 19-2951, 8th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 28089)....