BUSINESS WIRE

Deceuninck North America (DNA) sued the former vice president of its decking business and the deck manufacturing company he went to work for, Sensibuilt Building Solutions, for numerous claims including the misappropriation of trade secrets.

When DNA first learned that the former employee had gone to Sensibuilt, a forensics review of his work computer ultimately led to the discovery that he had downloaded more than 2,000 of DNA's most confidential documents onto a flash drive in the weeks just prior to departing the Company. During this process the employee also stripped many of those documents of data that would track their use and subsequently "wiped" clean his home computer's memory, further impairing discovery.

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