Jury awards app maker SolidFX $43.1 million in case against Jeppesen

[AuntPeggy]

A Colorado federal jury on Thursday ordered Jeppeson to pay a small Massachusetts-based software maker $43.1 million after finding the defendant breached its contract with the plaintiff for development of applications for e-book viewers, according to the plaintiffs' attorney.

The jury in Denver determined that Jeppesen Sanderson Inc. breached the terms of its five-year deal with Foxborough, Mass.-based SolidFX LLC and committed fraud, an attorney for SolidFX confirmed. The verdict followed an eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez.

SolidFX sued Jeppesen in June 2011, claiming the Boeing subsidiary breached the parties' five-year contract, under which SolidFX agreed to develop new software to allow pilots to access Jeppesen's terminal charts on e-book viewers.

http://www.law360.com/articles/529495/boeing-co-unit-owes-software-maker-43m-jury-says

 

[EppyGA]

There goes the cost of my 430 database subscription

 

[Dr. O]

Hey, I invented the internet. Where's my money?

 

[poadeleted21]

Hey, I invented the internet. Where's my money?

Meh, you'll make up the difference selling carbon credits.

 

[N801BH]

Meh, you'll make up the difference selling carbon credits.

Well played sir......

 

[AuntPeggy]

Hey, I invented the internet. Where's my money?

Did you? That was fun, wasn't it..!

I wonder how much Jeppeson already made from stealing app ideas.

 

[Clip4]

I remember when fraud was a criminal offense and people did jail time.

 

[SCCutler]

I remember when fraud was a criminal offense and people did jail time.

Me, too.

Now, it's an essential element of governing at bureaucracies on the federal level.

 

[timwinters]

it couldn't have happened to a nicer company.