A Newport Beach-based software manufacturer won a $26.1 million judgment in an intellectual property dispute with a Michigan company.
MSC Software Corp. sued Altair Engineering Inc. and a group of its former employees in 2007, saying the employees shared information about MSC’s simulation products with Altair.
The judgment followed a six-week trial and two days of jury deliberation in the U.S. District Court in Detroit.
3-D model prototype software products were at issue in the dispute. The jury decided Altair misappropriated source code and methods used to write code and that the former employees breached employee confidentiality agreements.
MSC’s lawsuit alleged Altair was developing software that competed with one of its products.
Altair said in a statement that it would continue to “pursue our legal options.”
—Staff Report
