{"id":16773,"date":"2020-08-22T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:08:53","slug":"us-court-to-reduce-tcs-fine-in-epic-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=16773","title":{"rendered":"US court to reduce TCS fine in EPIC case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-77690251,imgsize-63277,width-400,resizemode-4\/77690251.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"(File photo)\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><span class=\"_3sXlO _1Ee83 img_cptn\">(File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BENGALURU: A <!-- -->US court<!-- --> has upheld the verdict of $140 million in <!-- -->compensatory damages<!-- --> against <!-- -->Tata Consultancy Services<!-- --> (<!-- -->TCS<!-- -->) related to a trade secret theft case filed by <!-- -->American company Epic Systems<!-- -->. <br \/>However, the court observed that the $280 million awarded in punitive damages is \u201cconstitutionally excessive\u201d and asked the trial court to reassess the amount. <br \/>Epic develops software to manage electronic health records. <br \/>\u201cTCS is exploring the options available to it, as it believes that there is no evidence of misuse of Epic information,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/tcs-loses-us-trade-secrets-case-again\/articleshow\/77690237.cms\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(File photo) BENGALURU: A US court has upheld the verdict of $140 million in compensatory damages against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) related to a trade secret theft case filed by American company Epic Systems. However, the court observed that the $280 million awarded in punitive damages is \u201cconstitutionally excessive\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1598101736_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}