| Participants | Winner | Award | Description | Source | Year |
| Propel Fuels Inc. v. Phillips 66 | Propel Fuels Inc. | $604.9M | The theft and use of Propel’s confidential data, proprietary strategies, and business intelligence related to the renewable fuels market in California. | Source | 2024 |
| Motorola Solutions Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. | Motorola Solutions Inc. | $543.7M | Radio technology trade secret theft. | Source | 2024 |
| Insulet Corp. v. EOFlow Co. Ltd. | Insulet Corp. | $452M | Insulin delivery technology trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2024 |
| Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited v. TriZetto
Group | TriZetto
Group | $284M | Syntel sued TriZetto for breach of contract, misappropriation,
and intentional interference with contractual relations. In response, TriZetto filed counterclaims alleging misappropriation of trade secrets. | Source | 2024 |
| Zunum Aero Inc. v. The Boeing Company | Zunum Aero Inc. | $81.3M | Hybrid-electric aircraft technology trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2024 |
| OMG Girlz v. MGA Entertainment Inc. | OMG Girlz | $71.5M | Trade dress and likeness misappropriation. | Source | 2024 |
| Qorvo, Inc. v. Akoustis Technologies, Inc. | Qorvo, Inc. | $38.3M | Qorvo, a radio-frequency chip maker, sued rival Akoustis for allegedly poaching Qorvo’s employees and stealing proprietary designs for RF filters (used in smartphones and wireless devices). In May 2024, after a two-week trial in Delaware, the jury found Akoustis willfully and maliciously misappropriated Qorvo’s trade secrets (and also infringed Qorvo patents) in developing its competing bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters | Source | 2024 |
| Bell Helicopter Textron v. Rogerson Aircraft Corp. | Rogerson Aircraft Corp. | $16M | Aerospace design trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2024 |
| BioPoint, Inc. v. Catapult Staffing, LLС | BioPoint, Inc. | $7.5M | The theft and misuse of a staffing firm’s client and candidate data. | Source | 2024 |
| PB Legacy, Inc. v. Am. Mariculture, Inc. | PB Legacy, Inc. | $4.95M | Shrimp-related technology and information trade secrte misappropriation. | Source | 2024 |
| DXC Technology (Computer Sciences Corp) v. Tata Consultancy Services | DXC Technology | $210M | Software-related trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2023 |
| Plaintiff Epic Sys. Corp. v. Tata Consultancy Servs. Ltd | Plaintiff Epic Sys. Corp. | $140M | Health care management software trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2023 |
| Versata Software Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. | Versata Software Inc. | $104M | Automotive software trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2023 |
| Equate Media (Katz Companies) v. Suthar | Equate Media (Katz Companies) | $17M | Theft and misuse of confidential information related to internet marketing businesses specializing in moving services. | Source | 2023 |
| DistributionNOW v. Toby Eoff | DistributionNOW | $9M | Energy sector trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2023 |
| Coda Development v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | Coda Development | $8.4M | Self-inflating tire technology trade secret misappropriation. | Source | 2023 |
| BioPoint, Inc. v. Dickhaut (Catapult Staffing) | BioPoint, Inc. | $5M | BioPoint, Inc. (plaintiff), a life-sciences staffing firm, sued James Dickhaut (a former BioPoint business development manager) and his employer Catapult Staffing (defendants). Dickhaut’s fiancée was a BioPoint employee who had access to BioPoint’s confidential candidate and pricing information. | Source | 2023 |
| KPM Analytics North America Corp. v. Blue Sun Scientific LLC et al. | KPM Analytics North America Corp. | $4.9M | KPM, a scientific instruments manufacturer, alleged that Blue Sun unlawfully poached key personnel and stole KPM’s trade secrets – including proprietary software code and customer data – to jump-start Blue Sun’s competing business. | Source | 2023 |
| DistributionNOW (Highland Supply) v. Permian Pump & Valve Inc. | DistributionNOW | $1.7M | DistributionNOW (DNOW), an oilfield supply company, sued a group of former employees (who joined competitor Permian Pump & Valve) for misappropriating trade secrets and engaging in anti-competitive conduct. | Source | 2023 |
| Highland Consulting Grp., Inc. v. Minjares | Highland Consulting Grp. | $1.2M | "Five USB drives containing 15.4 gigabytes of data" containing Highland’s trade secrets misappropriation. | Source | 2023 |
| Highland Consulting Grp. v. Soule | Highland Consulting Grp. | $1.2M | This case involved a consulting group suing a former employee for misappropriation of trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). | Source | 2023 |
| Dmarcian, Inc. v. Dmarcian Europe BV | Dmarcian, Inc. | $1.2M | Misappropriation of trade secrets related to email authentication technology | Source | 2023 |
| Nulogy Corp. v. Menasha Packaging Co. | | Dimissed | This legal entanglement began in Ontario, Canada, where Nulogy Corporation sued Menasha Packaging Company, LLC, and Deloitte Consulting LLP, alleging the two collaborated to misuse Nulogy’s proprietary information and Menasha breached its contract with Nulogy. | Source | 2023 |
| Pauwels v. Deloitte LLP | | Dimissed | Plaintiff brought suit against BNYM and Deloitte, alleging, among other claims, that the Pauwels Model embodied a trade secret that they misappropriated. The Second Circuit reversed and remanded the district court’s judgment insofar as it dismissed Plaintiff’s unjust enrichment claim. | Source | 2023 |
| ASML v. XTAL | ASML | $845 Million | Semiconductor lithography secrets; largest global trade secret award. | Source | 2023 |
| Appian v. Pegasystems | Appian | $2.036B | Unanimous jury found Pega violated the Virginia Computer Crimes Act by infiltrating Appian. A unanimous jury also found that Pega misappropriated Appian trade secrets. | Source | 2022 |
| Coda Development v. Goodyear | Coda Development | $2.8 Million + $61.2 Million (punitive) | Goodyear was accused of stealing trade secrets related to tire technology. | Source | 2022 |
| Cognizant v. Syntel | Cognizant | $570M | Cognizant claimed that Syntel employees, while working on a project for TriZetto (a healthcare software company), accessed and copied confidential information related to Cognizant’s Facets software, which is used to automate administrative tasks in the healthcare insurance industry | Source | 2022 |
| DHI Group, Inc. v. Kent, David W. Kent, Jr. | DHI Group, Inc. | $3M | The trade secrets at issue—a resume database sold on a subscription basis to oil and gas companies. | Source | 2022 |
| Versata Software Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. | Versata Software | $105M | A Michigan court awarded Versata Software $105 million for misappropriation of software used in Ford’s vehicle assembly process. While the jury initially sided with Versata, the court ultimately sided with Ford, significantly reducing the damages awarded to Versata. | Source | 2022 |
| Comet Technologies USA Inc. v. XP Power LLC. | Comet Technologies USA Inc. | $40M | A California court awarded Comet Technologies $40 million for misappropriation of trade secrets related to semiconductor chip manufacturing. | Source | 2022 |
| Epic Systems Corp. v. Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd. | Epic Systems Corp. | $280M | A Wisconsin court initially awarded Epic Systems $940 million, which was later reduced to $280 million, for misappropriation of its trade secrets related to healthcare software. | Source | 2022 |
| Motorola v. Hytera | Motorola | $764.6M | Motorola successfully sued Hytera for misappropriating trade secrets and copyright infringement related to its two-way radio technology, with a jury finding that Hytera stole sensitive information from Motorola employees, leading to a large damages award against Hytera under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA); essentially, Hytera was found to have illegally used confidential Motorola designs to develop its own radio products. | Source | 2022 |
| Global Tubing v. Tenaris | Global Tubing | $7.5M | Tenaris misappropriated coiled tubing tech for oil/gas drilling. | Source | 2022 |
