His entire email account, including “14 months of confidential communications reserved exclusively for Zynga’s executive staff,” also went along for the ride. “The data Patmore unlawfully and intentionally stole from Zynga encompasses some of Zynga’s most valuable and confidential information,” including how the company determines which games and game mechanics will be successful, Zynga claimed in a lawsuit filed against Patmore, as well as an “internal assessment of every game feature rolled out over the last quarter” in CityVille, “historic and future monetization plans,” game design documents, confidential revenue information and a whole lot more. That’s all well and good, but what isn’t kosher is that before he left, he allegedly uploaded more than 760 confidential files stored on his Zynga-issued laptop to his Dropbox account and then tried to cover it up by uninstalling and deleting Dropbox from the computer. But he resigned from the company on August 16 to take the position of Product Vice President at War Commander studio Kixeye. Zynga alleges that the former General Manager of CityVille made off with trade secrets when he left the company to join a rival developer.Īlan Patmore joined Zynga as “Studio General Manager” in June 2011 and a year later was promoted to General Manager of the popular CityVille.

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