By: Suzanne Bohan
Contra Costa Times

Jury selection began in a state courtroom in Hayward for a case alleging theft of trade secrets and breach of a nondisclosure agreement by Lawrence Livermore National Security, the corporation running the Livermore Lab under contract with the Department of Energy.

A lawsuit filed in April 2008 by a Bay Area inventor, Victor Kley, claims laboratory employees co-opted a process Kley invented for creating an extremely hard capsule made from high-density carbon, a type of diamond, for use in the fusion chamber of the National Ignition Facility.

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