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Air taxi maker Joby Aviation in a new lawsuit accused competitor Archer Aviation of using stolen information by a former employee to "one-up" a partnership deal with a real estate developer.

"This is corporate espionage, planned and premeditated," Joby said in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in a California Superior Court in Santa Cruz , where the company is based.

The lawsuit alleges that Joby's then-U.S. state and local policy lead, George Kivork , downloaded dozens of files and sent some content to his personal email two days before he resigned in July to take a job at Archer, which had recruited him.

By August, Joby said a partner that worked with Kivork said it had been approached

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