Clash of the titans: Legal disputes among IT services firms on the rise

Platform-based, intellectual property-driven models trigger cases

Legal disputes in the information-technology (IT) services industry are on the rise as firms increasingly move toward platform-based and intellectual property-driven business models.

 

The latest to face such a case is Mumbai-headquartered Hexaware Technologies.

 

United States-based firm Natsoft and its subsidiary Updraft have sued Hexaware in America for $500 million for patent infringement.

 

Natsoft in its filing has said that Hexaware has misused confidential information and technology shared during their partnership to build its own competing platforms.

 

Hexaware in a regulatory filing said: “As per the information available on website of United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern