San Diego’s Illumina filed a lawsuit last week against Guardant Health, claiming its co-founders hijacked confidential trade secrets while working at Illumina to establish the intellectual property foundation for their own new company.
The complex legal action asks the court to declare Illumin
DNA sequencing power house Illumina sued liquid biopsy company Guardant Health, whose founders used to work for Illumina, claiming the two stole information from Illumina to file patents for Guardant. Illumina alleges that one of the executives misappropriated confidential information while he was still on Illumina's payroll.