BladeRoom Seeks $60M In Exemplary Damages In Trade Secrets Dispute

Mealey's (June 5, 2018, 2:53 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a May 31 post-verdict motion, BladeRoom Group Limited (BRG) asked a federal judge in California to award it $60 million in exemplary damages, as well as attorney fees and costs and prejudgment interest after a jury found that Emerson Electric Co. willfully and maliciously breached the terms of a confidentiality agreement between the parties by misappropriating BRG’s trade secrets for its prefabricated data centers to obtain contracts for the construction of a data center for Facebook Inc. (BladeRoom Group Limited, et al. v. Emerson Electric Co., et al., No. 15-1370, N.D. Calif.)....