Joby Aviation filed a lawsuit this week in California Superior Court alleging that rival Archer Aviation used confidential information taken by a former Joby employee.

The company said George Kivork, its former U.S. state and local policy lead, downloaded sensitive files and emailed additional material to a personal account two days before resigning in July. The complaint said the information included details of Joby’s exclusive partnership agreement with a real estate developer, along with commercial, regulatory and infrastructure strategy documents.

In addition to the real estate partnership information, Joby alleged that Kivork also stole “highly valuable trade secret information about Joby’s aircraft and operations, business and regulatory strategy, infrastructure strategy, and site

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