Stanford Partly Beats Roche Trade Secrets Suit, Professors Fail

Stanford University won dismissal of Roche Molecular Systems Inc.'s claims the school misappropriated trade secrets about cancer detection technology, but three university oncologists failed to escape the same allegations.

Roche’s accusations against Stanford fail because they lack evidence to support the claims, according to one of four orders issued Wednesday in the case. The pharmaceutical company’s trade secret claims against Professors Maximilian Diehn, Ash Alizadeh, and David Kurtz and their startup Foresight Diagnostics Inc. survived because it provided sufficient documentation to support allegations that confidential information was used to create the competing business.

Stanford still must face Roche’s ownership claim ...