{"id":1014785,"date":"2026-06-16T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014785"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:07:14","slug":"us-supreme-court-turns-down-tata-consultancy-services-appeal-in-168-million-trade-secrets-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/us-supreme-court-turns-down-tata-consultancy-services-appeal-in-168-million-trade-secrets-award\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court turns down Tata Consultancy Services&#8217; appeal in $168 million trade secrets award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court turned away on Monday a bid by India-based Tata Consultancy Services to overturn a $168 million award won against it by DXC Technology for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to life-insurance software. <\/p>\n<p>Tata had appealed after a lower court upheld a judge&#8217;s decision to set the award at $56 million in compensatory damages and $112 million in punitive damages to Ashburn, Virginia-based DXC. Tata had argued that the damages award could not be justified under US law regarding trade secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court turned away on Monday a bid by India-based Tata Consultancy Services to overturn a $168 million award won against it by DXC Technology for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to life-insurance software. Tata had appealed after a lower court upheld a judge&#8217;s decision to set the award at $56 million in compensatory damages and $112 million in punitive damages to Ashburn, Virginia-based DXC. Tata had argued that the damages award could not be justified under US law regarding trade secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014805,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014785\/revisions\/1014805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}