Roche Sues Stanford, Professors Over Cancer Tech Trade Secrets

Stanford University and three professors of medicine were hit with trade secret lawsuits accusing them of using Roche Molecular Systems Inc.'s cancer detection technology to secretly start a competing company.

Doctors Maximilian Diehn and Ash Alizadeh sold their cancer diagnostic company Capp Medical Inc. and its intellectual property to Roche in 2015 for “tens of millions of dollars,” before violating confidentiality agreements with the pharmaceutical giant to create Foresight Diagnostics Inc., according to federal lawsuits filed Monday in California and Delaware.

Roche seeks declaratory judgment that it’s the lawful owner of four patents and 10 patent applications filed by Stanford ...