24 March 2022Alex Baldwin

Comet awarded $40m in semiconductor trade secrets suit

California-based Comet Technologies has been handed a $40 million reward by a jury in a trade secret case against rival XP Power, which it claimed poached employees and misappropriated its trade secrets relating to semiconductor manufacturing.

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