Cow genetics firm takes Maine co. to court
A New York-based cattle genetics company is trying to prevent a former employee from using its trade secrets to launch a competing company in Maine.
Ithaca-based Genex Cooperative Inc. has taken former employee Kelly Moore of Augusta to court for selling and marketing artificial insemination products to cattle farmers in central Maine and parts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont, according to the Portland Press Herald. Genex attorneys claim Moore is violating a noncompete clause as part of his employment contract preventing him from selling to Genex customers in his former sales area for 18 months after leaving the company. A judge in Kennebec County Superior Court Friday extended a restraining order originally filed May 17 against Moore and Nathan Cossaboom, who in April started a new company called Bovine Genetics LLC, prohibiting them from divulging Genex trade secrets. Moore was fired from Genex in February.
Genex, a subsidiary of Cooperative Resources International, hired Moore as a part-time artificial insemination technician in 1999 and promoted him to area sales representative in 2003, according to the paper. Moore on Friday testified he did not sign a noncompete agreement.
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