For a handful of current and former Fitbit Inc. employees accused by the feds on Thursday of possessing trade secrets stolen from Jawbone, it must be a feeling of, “Here we go again.”

The six people indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for possessing stolen trade secrets were witnesses in a 2016 U.S. International Trade Commission proceeding that found no theft of trade secrets. A separate civil proceeding in California state court fizzled last fall after plaintiff Jawbone went out of business.

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