Natera Inc. poached Guardant Health Inc. employees to steal trade secrets and jumpstart its “lagging position” in the early cancer test industry, according to a federal lawsuit.
Former Guardant employees Alan Selewa and Catalin Barbacioru departed the company earlier this year with over 6,500 collective critical trade secret files before beginning work at competitor Natera, Guardant alleged in a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The files included spreadsheets and source code related to Guardant’s in-development multi-cancer early detection test, the suit said.
A Natera spokesperson said the complaint is “riddled with ...
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