Gillette’s razor of the future might have been compromised.

The Cincinatti Business Courier reports Proctor & Gamble ($PG) is suing four former Boston-based Gillette employees for allegedly leaking the company’s trade secrets to a Dallas-based competitor, ShaveLogic. The leak apparently violates a confidentiality contract the employees signed after being hired by Gillette (a P&G subsidiary).

Apparently, this group of former employees had been privy to some of Gillette’s top-secret projects.

P&G spokeswoman Kara Buckley told CBC the trade secrets in question deal with future products and shave technology Gillette is working on. “It’s common for folks in that group to work on technology that the consumer might not see for a decade,” Buckley reportedly said.

The technology includes magnetic shaving cartridge attachments and “elastromic pivots,” or pivots that have an elasticity similar to rubber. ShaveLogic has apparently already acted on the information: The company has allegedly filed patents for technology akin to what the employees in question worked on while still with Gillette.

The lawsuit, filed by P&G in Boston’s Suffolk Superior Court, is seeking an injunction to stop and prevent the former employees from disclosing sensitive and confidential information and secrets learned at Gillette. According to the CBC, P&G (which is based in Cincinnati) will request a jury trial and unspecified damages. The lawsuit’s listed defendants are Craig Provost of Massachusetts (former section head for Gillette’s industrial design group), John Griffin of New Hampshire (a 25-year Gillette employee who reached the top of the research and development group), William Tucker of Massachusetts (a former mechanical engineer at Gillette) and Douglas Kohring of Maine (a former senior mechanical design engineer at Gillette).

Most recently, Gillette rolled out the Venus Swirl, the first new model for the company’s women’s razor line in over a decade.

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