Collagen Corp., Matrix Pharma news

CGEN (Palo Alto) sued MATX in Santa Clara County Superior Court, charging theft of trade secrets. The complaint alleges that MATX gained unlawful access to CGEN's process for the production of purified fibrillar collagen by hiring former CGEN employees.

CGEN also alleges that MATX forestalled litigation by falsely assuring that it didn't plan to replicate CGEN's large-scale production facility, and by expressing an intention to make CGEN its primary source of collagen. ...