Jabil has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against 3D printing hardware and materials company Essentium relating to the commercialisation of its High Speed Extrusion platform.

The global contract manufacturer claims three former employees and one former contractor ‘stole Jabil’s trade secrets and capitalised on confidential information that Jabil invested thousands of hours over a period of years and millions of dollars to develop’ and took them to Essentium, which would be a violation of signed confidentially agreements.

Erik Gjovik, Greg Ojeda, William Jack ‘Terry’ MacNeish III (the former Jabil employees who all live in California) and Lars Uffhausen (the former contractor who resides in New Jersey) all helped to establish Essentium in its printing hardware endeavours and are credited as co-founders. Three of them remain at the company, while Ojeda is now founder and CEO of another company in Los Angeles. Jabil says that while it was developing […]

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