Quintara Biosciences, Inc. v. Ruifeng Biztech Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

QUINTARA BIOSCIENCES, INC., Plaintiff, No. C 20-04808 WHA

v.

RUIFENG BIZTECH INC., et al., ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS Defendants.

15 INTRODUCTION In this potpourri of disputes between former business partners, defendants move to dismiss a subset of plaintiff’s claims. For the following reasons, the motion is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART. STATEMENT A prior order detailed the extraordinary allegations here (Dkt. No. 19), but they bear restating. Drs. Qun ‘Richard’ Shan and Xueling ‘Sue’ Zhao started their DNA-sequence analysis company, plaintiff Quintara Biosciences, Inc., in their garage in 2005. Purchasing startup equipment with a $230,000 home equity loan, they toiled long hours and many sleepless nights, while raising children and working other full-time jobs, to eventually build Quintara into a respected genetic-sequencing analysis business. Despite…