Performance Pulsation Control Trade Secret Lawsuit Expands to Include Houston Industrial Manufacturer
Advanced Rupture Disk Technology included as defendant following ruling by federal judge
DALLAS, March 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal judge in North Texas has granted a request by Dallas-based Performance Pulsation Control (PPC) to add Houston industrial manufacturer's representative Advanced Rupture Disk Technology Inc. (ARDT) to an ongoing trade secret theft lawsuit. ARDT was added as a defendant for its role in assisting two former PPC employees who used the company's trade secrets to create a competing business.
In an amended complaint filed following U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant's order, PPC charges that ARDT secretly worked with former PPC employee Justin Manley to create Sigma Drilling Technologies. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Manley used PPC's trade secrets and confidential information to design and manufacture Sigma's competing line of products while still working as PPC's director of sales and marketing.
Mr. Manley was PPC's point of contact with ARDT, and both he and ARDT had entered into nondisclosure agreements to safeguard PPC's technology. Despite those agreements, the lawsuit charges that ARDT proceeded to assist Mr. Manley in manufacturing Sigma's competing products during a time when Mr. Manley was still working for PPC.
"This lawsuit is about a betrayal of trust on several levels," said John Palter of Dallas' Palter Stokely Sims PLLC. "PPC's own employee worked on company time to create competing products. Meanwhile, a trusted vendor knowingly took part in this unscrupulous activity."
PPC designs and manufactures a line of pulsation dampeners for pumps used in oil, gas and mining operations that protect pump components from damage and improve their efficiency, reliability and overall safety. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and a declaratory judgment establishing that PPC is the owner of copyrights and trade secrets in use by Sigma and an injunction on sales of those products.
The case is Performance Pulsation Control v Sigma Drilling Technologies et al., filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. For more information, visit http://www.pulsationcontrol.com/.
Palter Stokley Sims PLLC is a Dallas law firm known for high integrity and trusted counsel on behalf of businesses seeking legal and business solutions to their litigation and transactional matters. For more information about the firm, visit www.palterlaw.com.
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