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relief for SOMBRA ; Judge rules competing business stole formulas, must stop producing analgesic gels

Three former employees of Albuquerque pain relief gel manufacturer Sombra Cosmetics misappropriated trade secrets when they attempted to set up a competing business in Los Lunas, a court has ruled.

District Court Judge Clay Campbell last month ordered Roberto Gomez, Michael Whalen and Tamara Richardson, of Alivia Laboratories, to cease making pain relief products using the same ingredients and production techniques as Sombra, and to stop distributing their product, Alivia.

The ruling concludes more than two years of legal wrangling between the 33-year-old Sombra and its upstart competitor, whose founders claimed in court documents they had invented Alivia using their own formulas, and ...

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