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OSI Systems’ AS&E Unit Sues Viken for Theft of Trade Secrets

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

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OSI Systems’ AS&E Unit Sues Viken for Theft of Trade Secrets

Viken Detection's HBI-120 handheld X-Ray imager. Photo: Viken Detection

American Science and Engineering (AS&E) in early March sued a former employee and the security detection company he founded for allegedly stealing trade secrets, breach of contract, and a number of other charges. Viken Detection, the company founded by Peter Rothschild, the former chief scientist of AS&E and currently the chief technology officer of Viken, called AS&E’s lawsuit “groundless” and that it is “based on concocted allegations of events that supposedly took place over six years ago, when Dr. Rothschild…

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