Tesla Can Move Forward With Trade-Secret Suit Against Rivian

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Tesla Can Move Forward With Trade-Secret Suit Against Rivian
By
Robert Burnson
March 29, 2021, 7:26 PM CDT

The Rivian R1T electric pickup truck. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Tesla Inc. can move forward with a lawsuit claiming that Rivian Automotive Inc. stole its trade secrets with the help of former employees of the electric carmaker.

In a tentative ruling Monday, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Monahan declined Rivian’s request to throw out a misappropriation of trade secrets claim. Monahan agreed to dismiss Rivian’s intentional interference in contract claim, saying the trade secrets part covered that.

The judge also declined to dismiss Tesla’s claims against seven of its former employees, all of whom the carmaker accuses of divulging trade secrets when they went to work for the rival startup.

Tesla claimed in its lawsuit, filed in July, that Rivian had hired at least 178 of its former employees.

Rivian denies any wrongdoing and says Tesla’s lawsuit is an effort to kill competition in the electric car industry.

The case is Tesla Inc. v. Rivian Automotive Inc., 20CV368472, California Superior Court, Santa Clara County (San Jose).

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG

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Tesla Can Move Forward With Trade-Secret Suit Against Rivian
By
Robert Burnson
March 29, 2021, 7:26 PM CDT

The Rivian R1T electric pickup truck. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Tesla Inc. can move forward with a lawsuit claiming that Rivian Automotive Inc. stole its trade secrets with the help of former employees of the electric carmaker.

In a tentative ruling Monday, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Monahan declined Rivian’s request to throw out a misappropriation of trade secrets claim. Monahan agreed to dismiss Rivian’s intentional interference in contract claim, saying the trade secrets part covered that.

The judge also declined to dismiss Tesla’s claims against seven of its former employees, all of whom the carmaker accuses of divulging trade secrets when they went to work for the rival startup.

Tesla claimed in its lawsuit, filed in July, that Rivian had hired at least 178 of its former employees.

Rivian denies any wrongdoing and says Tesla’s lawsuit is an effort to kill competition in the electric car industry.

The case is Tesla Inc. v. Rivian Automotive Inc., 20CV368472, California Superior Court, Santa Clara County (San Jose).

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG

This is exactly what happens when a company comes up with a new product that they have to build the machine to build the machine for.
Other companies see dollar signs and want to get in on the action, but can't just buy the machines to make the machine from a catalog. So, they grab employees with intimate knowledge. Just like in the movie Willy Wonka. In the mid 70's I was one of the first employees at Morey Boogie. Tom Morey was a visionary guy who came up with ideas on how to build our own machines to build the Boogie boards. After he sold the company to a large corporation that moved the factory to Mexico, lots of the employees were head hunted by other companies wanting to get into the business.

 

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This is exactly what happens when a company comes up with a new product that they have to build the machine to build the machine for.
Other companies see dollar signs and want to get in on the action, but can't just buy the machines to make the machine from a catalog. So, they grab employees with intimate knowledge. Just like in the movie Willy Wonka. In the mid 70's I was one of the first employees at Morey Boogie. Tom Morey was a visionary guy who came up with ideas on how to build our own machines to build the Boogie boards. After he sold the company to a large corporation that moved the factory to Mexico, lots of the employees were head hunted by other companies wanting to get into the business.

Probably happens more than what most people know.

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