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Dec 3, 2007

Former research director of vitamin supplement company accused of stealing precise formula he was hired to develop

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New lawsuit filed in Utah accuses a former research scientist employed by a nutritional supplement company of stealing trade secrets, customers, and employees when forming a rival vegan supplement company.

Systemic Formulas, Inc. claims that its former research director, Daeyoon Kim, is using Systemic’s trade secrets and proprietary information as the basis for its formula in the rival vegan supplement company. In its complaint against Kim, Systemic alleges that Kim executed Confidentiality and Non-Disclosures Agreement intended to protect Systemic’s proprietary information. Systemic alleges that Kim was specifically hired to develop a line of nutritional supplements without the RNA/DNA factor that is considered to be an animal product and therefore less appealing to certain portions of the supplement-consuming public that want a more natural supplement. Kim asserts that his primary duty was an employee manager and claims that Systemic did not have a research facility. However, Systemic’s website states, “Systemic Formulas uses a technologically advanced research and production facility to manufacture the bottling and capsulation process of its product’s raw materials.”

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