PHILADELPHIA -- AES Clean Technology Inc. has dismissed its lawsuit that alleged a handful of individuals launched a direct competitor while still employed with the plaintiff.
AES sued Glenn VandeGrift, its former vice president of construction, Emily Rogers, who worked as a project coordinator for AES, Richard Schoenberg, the plaintiff's former director of business development, George Wiker, former executive director, as well as and Isoclean Inc., and Allied Construction Management Services LLC on June 11 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Ultimately, AES said it sued because the employees used its secrets to start a competing company, while still fulfilling major roles at AES.
On Oct. 18, AES filed a stipulation of dismissal. One of the defendants - Schoenberg - had a motion to dismiss pending.
AES said in its lawsuit, “defendants VandeGrift, Wiker and Schoenberg are in clear violation of their agreements with AES not to compete with the company or solicit AES’ customers and employees, and all individual defendants have brazenly violated their duties of loyalty to AES by clandestinely launching new companies, defendants Allied and isoClean, which are directly competing with AES, while the individual defendants were employed by AES.”