It’s an increasingly familiar scenario. A worker at a cutting-edge tech company in Silicon Valley relocates to China and starts a competing company, and accusations of stolen trade secrets start flying.

But there’s a twist in Friday’s suit from biocatalyst developer Codexis Inc. against EnzymeWorks Inc. EnzymeWorks CEO Junhua “Alex” Tao isn’t a former employee, but allegedly gained access to confidential biomaterials as part of a research partnership between Codexis and a larger pharmaceutical company.

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