A lawsuit has been filed by DePuy Synthes against former sales reps now working for rival companies. According to MassDevice.com, the company, which is the orthopedics arm of Johnson & Johnson, has filed a lawsuit against three of its former employees as well as rival company Globus Medical for breaching contraction with their defections.

This lawsuit comes weeks after an additional lawsuit was filed against two former employees that previously sold trauma products for the company began working for Peerless Surgical. According to Law360.com, DePuy alleged that the former employees were “privy to company trade secrets” and violated their noncompete agreements by working for Peerless Surgical.

And these are not the only lawsuits the company has posed against former employees. According to sources, the company pushed 3 million dollar trade secret lawsuits against other former employees including two former Virginia Sales Representatives in July.

The latest suit involves three representatives from the Texas area, Jared Bunn, Aaron Garza and Jason Glynn, that DePuy alleges Globus hired knowing they were subject to confidentiality and non-competition agreements.

According to the lawsuit, “Globus intentionally recruited the individual defendants as a team in an effort to rapidly build its own business, not by competing through its products, services, and pricing, but instead by appropriating and capitalizing on the goodwill, customer relationships, and confidential information that DePuy Synthes necessarily entrusts to its sales employees.

“By virtue of Globus’s recruiting and hiring, around the same time, of several DePuy Synthes sales employees with responsibility for overlapping or geographically adjacent territories, the former DePuy Synthes sales employees are able to use their collective efforts and assistance to each other in soliciting sales from DePuy Synthes customers while claiming not to violate their individual non-compete agreements with DePuy Synthes. Globus has continued to recruit additional sales employees of DePuy Synthes with the intention of building its business based on the goodwill, customer relationships and confidential information of DePuy Synthes.”