Blue Sun Scientific LLC and its parent company must pay $4.9 million for poaching KPM Analytics North America Corp.’s trade secrets, customer data, and several key employees to build a rival near infrared testing equipment and services company, a federal jury in Massachusetts determined.
KPM sued Blue Sun and its parent, The Innovative Technologies Group & Co., in April 2021, alleging the tech startup lured several key workers at KPM’s Unity Scientific unit to defect to Blue Sun with proprietary company software and customer data. KPM also named four former workers in the lawsuit, accusing them of misusing confidential data ...
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