2025-01-27 10:06:00 :
In a motion submitted by Infosys in early January, Cognizant’s definition of business secrets is quite extensive and well known.
“On the contrary, it depends on the vagueness and excessive definition of ‘business secrets and confidential information’. These definitions will be identified by QNXT and FaceTs, which will have a history of ten years. The so -called business secret for COGNIZANT is allegedly stolen by Infosys.
It added: “Rough Internet search reveals public information about these software applications. A large number of healthcare, insurance, and IT service personnel can access QNXT and Facets.”
Infosys filed a lawsuit against the Dallas Court on January 17, trying to force Cognizant to correctly identify its business secrets that claimed to stole Infosys.
In a joint answer submitted with Infosys on January 22, Cognizant sought to extend the deadline to March 10, 2025 to respond to Infosys’s counterclaim.
The representative of INFOSYS is Jenner & Block LLP (a law firm in Chicago), and the representative of Cognizant is Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP (a law firm in Los Angeles).
War of law
The new progress has extended the legal struggle between the two software service companies, which will make the management of the two companies more responsible for their respective interests.
The dispute between the two IT service companies began in August 2024. At that time, Cognizant, a Listed company in Nasdaq, accused India stole the business secrets of software products used to deal with the health care industry insurance industry. Essence
Infosys refuted the allegations in the document submitted on January 9, saying that Ravi Kumar S. COGNIZANT CEO Ravi Kumar S. was postponed to the launch of Infosys’s own medical care products when discussing joining Cognizant.
Ravi Kumar joined Cognizant as CEO after exiting Infosys in January 2023.
Infosys subsequently submitted a 302 -page motion on January 17, asking Cognizant to clearly list its business secrets and ask the court to postpone its response until the business secrets were clearly understood.
As part of the file, Infosys’s lawyer provides court documents and emails exchange with lawyer Cognizant.
COGNIZANT has sought information about its own software products, technologies developed to integrate QNXT and FaceTs software that integrates COGNIZANT, and information about the identity of these two software personnel.
“As explained in the complaint, in December 2023, Trizetto found that Infosys claimed to provide product access permissions through the ‘Infosys Business AsSurance Store’. These products originated and contained Trizetto’s secret and commercial secret information, including derived from the Trizetto FaceTs®. Information and QNXT ™ products. Specifically, Trizetto detects Infosys that use Infosys that can only be accessed with the strict restrictions of NDAA signed with Trizetto to create FaceTs® and QNXT ™ products. A group of clarification.
Infosys, India’s second largest IT service company, said in a response that Cognizant was vaguely identified in identifying its business secrets.
“First of all, COGNIZANT does not specify whether all Facets and QNXT test cases are commercial secrets, or whether certain subsets of FaceTs and QNXT test cases contain business secrets (if so and why). The same opaque is that it is the opaque is that Whether COGNIZANT advocates that Infosys stole the test cases created by Cognizant (if it is, which test cases), or claim that Infosys stole other COGNIZANT information (such as FaceTs itself) when creating a test case. Essence
Just as the 302 -page motion discussion, in the other email response to Lawyer India, COGNIZANT said that it will not meet and discuss with Indiacus in an email with this. The main points of the case, because Indiaceus mistakenly described all the contents of the case in his abstract. The meeting, and the email will not be exchanged. It adds that most of the company’s requirements are very excessive.
Damage
At least one expert said that this problem is not a good sign for India’s $ 254 billion IT industry.
A former COGNIZANT senior executive who did not want to disclosure said: “Cognizant must prove in court that Infosys is using Trizetto’s intellectual property rights to develop its own products. Since buying these software products, these intellectual property rights belong to INFOSYS.” The industry is unfavorable because these are big companies with integrity, “this executive added.
For Infosys, this is not the only resistance facing Cognizant.
Infosys has requested the Dallas court for jury trial to prohibit COGNizant from engaging in anti -competitive behavior it considers.
COGNIZANT acquired Trizetto, which provides management solutions in the field of medical care in 2014, thereby acquired QNXT and Facets. These products are used by US health insurance companies to deal with claims.
Infosys and COGNIZANT have been using these two software products to provide services to customers in the field of medical care. Infosys claims that COGNIZANT is setting up obstacles to other service providers including them, integrated these two software products into customers’ software’s software Essence
As part of the counterclaim on January 9th, Infosys said that COGNIZANT CEO Ravi Kumar has served as the president of the company headquarters in Bangalore. When the company joined the matter to negotiate, the launch of his software product Helix was postponed. As its CEO.
This is a rare event for the company to hunt up the former executives.
COGNIZANT acquired Trizetto for $ 1.3 billion in 2014, becoming one of the largest acquisitions at the time. Since then, Trizo has helped the company expand the health care business.
Cognizant’s income from customers in the field of health care is four times that of Infosys. Infosys’ revenue from customers in the field of life sciences is about 7.5%, that is, $ 1.4 billion, and Cognizant has received 29.3%, which is $ 5.7 billion.
Nevertheless, their income gap is not large, because both parties try to report more business than each other. At present, COGNIZANT has a larger scale, with a revenue of 19.4 billion US dollars last year. Infosys’s revenue in the last fiscal year was 18.6 billion US dollars.
Infosys follows the accounting year from April to March, and Cognizant follows the accounting year from January to December.
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