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AirPro Diagnostics has filed suit against Drew Technologies, accusing the Opus IVS subsidiary of violating the terms of an information sharing agreement with AirPro and using what it learned to become a direct competitor.
The suit, AirPro Diagnostics v. Drew Technologies, was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Also named in the suit are Opus, Drew subsidiary AutoEngenity, and Brian Herron, president of Opus IVS, each of whom has been accused of unfair competition against AirPro.
AirPro alleges that Drew, a collision and mechanical diagnostics company, breached a mutual party agreement between the two “in numerous ways … including by using the information and technical knowledge provided by AirPro under that Agreement to wrongfully establish a competing business.”
The suit seeks unspecified monetary damages. None of the defendants has yet filed a response to the suit.
At the center of the lawsuit is a mutual party agreement between AirPro and Drew signed Feb. 13, 2017. Under the terms of the agreement, the parties agreed to exchange information with one another, including “business strategies, pricing, techniques, computer programs, methods, drawings, formulas, specifications, software, or other data of a business or technical nature[.]”
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