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2 May 2023Sarah Speight

Ford gets trade secrets damages slashed from $105m to $3

The car maker convinces a US federal judge to overturn an earlier jury decision which favoured a software provider | Court finds that Versata “forced the jury to rest its damages awards on nothing more than speculation”.

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