ORRVILLE, Ohio — Orrville-based J.M. Smucker has filed a federal lawsuit against one of its former scientists alleging that he kept several company laptops after his firing and downloaded “hundreds of confidential and sensitive files to external USB storage drives.”
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Ohio’s Eastern Division, claims that former senior scientist Paul-Yvann Djamen “improperly copied, transferred, and retained Smucker’s confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets from Smucker’s computer laptops and systems and now, refuses to return and destroy the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets he stole.”
Smucker says much of the data that Djamen copied are related to its popular Uncrustables products…