August 30, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed a lower court's denial of a request by software company Proofpoint Inc. for exemplary damages that could have doubled its $13.5 million trade secret theft verdict, ruling that any error the district court made in denying the damages is harmless.
August 12, 2024
Software company Proofpoint urged the Ninth Circuit to find the lower court erred in denying it exemplary damages that could have doubled its $13.5 million trade secret theft verdict, arguing that a jury should've decided the issue and the ruling violated Proofpoint's Seventh Amendment rights to a jury trial.
September 06, 2023
A California federal judge denied Tuesday software company Proofpoint's attorney fee request for scoring a $14 million trade secret theft verdict against an ex-executive and a rival that hired him, finding that the evidence supporting the jury's willful misappropriation finding is minimal "at best" and not enough to warrant fees.