Tesla Motors filed a lawsuit in San Mateo Superior Court in California on Monday against one of its competitors for allegedly stealing design ideas and trade secrets. The company claims that former employee Henrik Fisker, Fisker Coachbuild CEO, and his Chief Operating Officer Bernhard Koehler accepted the job with Tesla only to gain access to confidential information to later use on a competing vehicle.

The lawsuit claims that before working with Tesla, Fisker had absolutely no experience with hybrid technology, and Fisker allegedly sabotaged Tesla to use confidential information for its own car, later unveiled as Karma.

“I think it’s ironic that Fisker chose to name his car Karma, when what he’s done is very bad karma,” said Adam C. Belsky, lawyer at Gross, Belsky and Alonso, which represents Tesla, The New York Times reports.

Tesla initially hired Fisker to work on the design of a four-seat sedan, named White Star, which was supposed to become available for sale in 2010. The company complained that due to Fisker’s release of Karma, they were forced to delay the production of the White Star to change the design.

“It caused a slight delay in White Star because we could not use the Fisker styling,” said Elon Musk, chairman of Tesla, NYT reports. “I’m not really a car designer. We’ll see what people think of cars designed by me versus Fisker; it’s the amateur versus the professional.”

The purpose of the lawsuit is to stop Fisker from using Tesla documents and return the money from the contract. Tesla is also looking for unspecified punitive damages. Fisket Automotive was not available for comments on the litigation.