May 07, 2016
A Florida federal judge on Friday denied a consulting company's bid to offset a nearly $5 million verdict against it for trade secrets violations, saying that a settlement in a related suit doesn't apply because it was for slightly different claims.
April 28, 2016
A Florida federal court Thursday denied an information technology consultant's request for a new trial after a jury found it misappropriated a security access IT system from a U.S. Navy contractor, but reduced the $5 million award by $250,000 because of juror error.
March 10, 2016
A Navy contractor hit back Wednesday at an information technology consultant's move to erase a $5 million jury award against it for misappropriating a security access IT system, saying the evidence supports the verdict and the consultant wants to be rescued from its own mistakes at trial.
December 16, 2015
An information technology consultant is fighting a Florida federal jury's $5 million award against it for misappropriating a U.S. Navy contractors' security access IT system to develop its own version, arguing Wednesday that the system wasn't adequately protected and wasn't misused.
November 18, 2015
A Florida federal jury on Tuesday awarded a U.S. Navy contractor $5 million in a trade secrets suit, finding that an information technology consultant used its access to proprietary XTec Inc. source code to develop its own updated version.
November 02, 2015
A Florida federal judge on Monday denied an IT consultant's request to throw out a Navy contractor's intellectual property suit, despite the consultant's pleas over the weekend the company had no case because it had not protected its own technology.
June 19, 2015
An IT consultant cannot dodge key claims from a Florida-based Navy contractor's intellectual property lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Thursday, saying an earlier order in another case stemming from the same set of facts showed that security contractor XTec Inc. did in fact establish trade secret protection for its proprietary software.
June 03, 2015
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday blocked security contractor XTec Inc.'s effort to dodge counterclaims from a former consultant that says the contractor defamed it in the course of an intellectual property lawsuit over a U.S. Navy information technology system.
May 19, 2015
Security contractor XTec Inc. told a Florida federal judge Monday that it properly asserted that an IT system it sold the U.S. Navy was proprietary, asking the court to allow to proceed its claims that a former consultant misappropriated its trade secrets by offering the Navy an upgraded version of the system.
May 04, 2015
A Florida federal judge shot down a request for discovery sanctions Monday in a suit from security company XTec Inc. alleging a security consultant misappropriated its proprietary information related to technology used by the U.S. Navy, ordering the two sides to engage in "reasonable compromise."