Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Best Medical accuses Accuray of poaching

from massdevice.com:

>>Best Medical International Inc. accuses Accuray Corp. of patent infringement and stealing trade secrets, alleging that four former employees took proprietary information with them when they joined Accuray.

Best Medical International Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing Accuray Corp. (NSDQ:ARAY) of patent infringement and stealing trade secrets, after four of its former executives jumped ship for Accuray.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania, alleges that Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Accuray's CyberKnife VSI system, which delivers controlled, focused doses of radiation to eradicate tumors, infringes a patent it owns for intensity modulated radiation therapy. Springfield, Va.-based Best Medical claimed that Robert Hill, a former employee who quit to work for Accuray, "downloaded confidential, proprietary, intellectual property and trade secrets" from Best Medical before he left its employ, according to court documents.

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