Computer Sciences Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al.

Dallas, Texas commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a misappropriatio of trade secrets theory.



Computer Sciences Corporation ("CSC”) sued Appellant Tata Consultancy Services Limited ("TCS”) for trade secret misappropriation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, Pub. L. No. 114-153, § 2(a), 130 Stat. 376, 376–80 (codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1836). CSC alleged that TCS had used CSC's trade secrets to win a $2.6 billion contract

with non-party Transamerica and to develop TCS's own software platform BaNCS.

llowing an eight-day trial with an advisory jury, the district court

found TCS liable, ordered TCS to pay $56 million in compensatory damages nd $112 million in exemplary damages, and imposed a permanent injunction, barring TCS from using CSC’s trade secrets or the version of BaNCS that TCS developed using CSC’s trade secrets.



Affirmed in part and reversed in part.