Agilent Files New Complaint Against Twist Bioscience Regarding Stolen Agilent Confidential Documents
September 18 2018 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) filed a new complaint
against Twist Bioscience Corp. (“Twist”) and Emily Leproust. The
proposed Second Amended Complaint adds two additional defendants
(Twist employee Siyuan Chen and former Twist employee Solange
Glaize) and adds new facts that were recently discovered regarding
the defendants’ wide-ranging theft of Agilent’s proprietary
oligonucleotide synthesis technology. First, “Leproust and several
other former Agilent employees who joined her at Twist . . . stole
Agilent’s most sensitive documents. Using thumb drives, cloud
accounts, and personal emails, Leproust, Chen, Glaize and other
former Agilent employees stole hundreds of Agilent documents
clearly marked ‘Confidential.’” Second, Twist’s founder Emily
Leproust secretly accepted a position as CEO at Agilent competitor,
Twist, yet remained an Agilent employee exposed to Agilent trade
secrets and confidential information for 17 months.
Agilent’s lawsuit is pending in the Superior Court of the State
of California for the County of Santa Clara, Case No. 16-cv-291137.
A copy of the proposed Second Amended Complaint can be accessed
here.
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