By Kirell Lakhman

Berkeley HeartLab, the CLIA lab unit of Celera, sued Health Diagnostic Laboratory and several former employees Jan. 14 for alleged "trade secret violations, breach of contract, conspiracy, [and] unfair competition," among other charges, according to a recent blog post.

The suit was filed two weeks after five BHL sales reps decamped to HDL and claims that in October 2008 a former BHL senior vice president founded Health Diagnostic "with the alleged intent to compete with Berkeley by providing diagnostic clinical tests that target cardiovascular disease and disease management similar to Berkeley's clinical programs."

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