Tata Consultancy Services (NSE:TCS, BOM:532540) failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling requiring it to pay $168 million to DXC Technology in a trade secrets dispute, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The award includes $56 million in compensatory damages and $112 million in punitive damages, the report noted. The case is based on allegations that Tata Consultancy improperly used proprietary information related to building a life-insurance software, the report added.
Challenging the damages award, Tata Consultancy argued that it was not supported under U.S. trade secrets law, Reuters reported. The company denied wrongdoing and maintained that the information in question was not confidential and was accessed lawfully, it added.
The dispute started with a lawsuit filed in 2019 by DXC predecessor Computer Sciences Corp, which alleged that Tata Consultancy used its proprietary life-insurance software and related information to build a competing platform, according to the report.
In 2023, a jury in an advisory verdict said Tata Consultancy should pay $210 million for deliberately stealing trade secrets. A federal judge later reduced the award to $168 million in 2024, and an appeals court upheld the decision in 2025, Reuters reported.
Tata Consultancy shares rose over 1% in recent trade.
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