Abstract
DuPont and Invista filed separate law-suits within a week, each alleging that the other violated nylon-related trade secrets and seeking unspecified monetary damages. On Nov. 6, Invista refiled a complaint in U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that DuPont conspired with Rhodia to steal Invista’s Gen 1 technology to make the nylon 6,6 intermediate adiponitrile at a plant to be built in Asia by 2012. DuPont now buys adiponitrile at below-market prices from Invista to make nylon engineering resins, but Invista alleges DuPont is aiding Rhodia to assure itself of an advantage in obtaining supplies of the raw material when the Invista contract expires after 2012. The complaint drops Rhodia as a defendant because the court ruled last month that it did not have jurisdiction over the French firm’s activities (C&EN, Nov. 10, page 24). However, Invista hasn’t dropped the matter and late last week filed suit against Rhodia ...
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