BioScent Dx Inc., which is developing a testing protocol based on the potential of dogs to “smell cancer,” sued its former top researcher in Delaware, claiming she used its trade secrets to found a competing company with nearly the same name.
Heather Junqueira was fired in September after she refused to stop using BioScent Dx’s business resources, intellectual property, and vendors to get veterinary startup BioScent Inc. off the ground, according to the Chancery Court complaint.
Junqueira allegedly set up BioScent Inc. and a related nonprofit, BioScent K9 Inc., in a bid to diagnose pets, rather than people, through the ...
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