'Infosys became caught pink-handed, surpassing misappropriating change secrets,' says Cognizant.



Cognizant's generation solutions in a US court docket filing stated Infosys turned into "caught pink-handed" stealing the trade secrets and techniques of its healthcare software program TriZetto, according to a Mint record.


This comes over a month after India's 2nd-biggest software program exporter, Infosys, had countersued the NASDAQ-indexed cognizant, alleging that the employer and its CEO, ravi Kumar, indulged in anti-aggressive tactics and misused touchy statistics to slow down the boom of its healthcare platform, Infosys Helix.


'Infosys caught pink-handed'


"Infosys became caught purple-handed misappropriating TriZetto change secrets and techniques that Infosys at the start had get entry to to through non-disclosure and access agreements (NDAAs)," the document quoted the 22-page courtroom response of cognizant, filed on february 7, as saying.


Cognizant's subsidiary cognizant TriZetto had filed the lawsuit in texas federal court, alleging that Infosys stole change secrets related to its healthcare insurance software. Cognizant's software consists of TriZetto's sides and QNXT, utilized by healthcare coverage organizations to automate administrative responsibilities. consistent with the


complaint by using Cognizant


Infosys misused TriZetto's software to create "test cases for sides," which improperly repackaged TriZetto's facts into an Infosys product.


'Infosys refused to permit an audit.'


Within the recent court docket reaction, cognizant alleged that Infosys refused to permit an audit of its use of TriZetto statistics, which may additionally have discovered a few pieces of evidence.


"When faced, Infosys obfuscated to the maximum volume possible, asking TriZetto to certainly agree with, based totally on nothing, that there had been no wrongdoing. When TriZetto refused to take Infosys as its word and demanded an audit of Infosys's use of TriZetto's facts, as explicitly permitted below the NDAAs for any cause (much less rampant exchange secret misappropriation), Infosys refused to conform," cognizant said.


The IT primary asked the court to reserve Infosys to provide all files related to the problem.


earlier poaching allegations


substantially, cognizant and Infosys had been concerned in a conflict for months now. It started out when Infosys accused cognizant of poaching its key executives after the previous president and deputy leader, working officer ravi Kumar S, joined cognizant as its chief executive officer.


10 things to understand about ravi Kumar


The poaching allegations were also levelled by way of any other indian IT massive Wipro, who had filed fits in the US and india in opposition to two of its former executives- Mohd Haque and the then leader economic Officer Jatin Dalal- who went on to join Cognizant. afterward, on July 9, 2024, the parties reached a settlement in the non-compete lawsuit filed by way of Wipro.
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Kokila Chokkanathan

18/02/2025 11:31 AM