US Court of Appeals has upheld an earlier court’s decision to fine Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with $194 million in damages for using DXC Technology Company’s trade secrets.

Last year, DXC, then known as Computer Sciences Corporation, had accused TCS of misappropriating its trade secrets. It claimed TCS used the trade secrets to win a $2.6 billion contract with Trasnamerica and develop its own software platform BaNCS. The District court had ruled in favour of DXC, asking TCS to pay $56,151,583 in compensatory damages, $112,303,166 in exemplary damages and $25,773,576.60 in prejudgment interest. At the time, TCS had claimed “strong arguments against the Judgement” and initiated an appeal in the US court.

On Friday, the Appeals Court gave its ruling on the matter and upheld the Distric

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