The ongoing litigation between Cognizant and IT services firm Infosys with relation to a trade secrets case involving Cognizant-owned Trizetto hit a dead end again this week.
Both parties filed a supplemental joint report in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 26 and have requested for oral arguments failing to reach a consensus.
The 36-page supplemental joint report suggests a deadlock and disagreements between the two parties regarding the adequacy of responses and the scope of requested information from both parties.
This is despite representatives of both the companies meeting multiple times last week to sort out the disputes between them in the trade secrets misappropriation case.
Cognizant’s assertion is that Infosys has failed to provide full and complete responses. It argued that Infosys’s answers are vague, overly narrow, and do not address the substance of the queries related to alleged misuse of confidential information, employee poaching, and the scope of knowledge Infosys gained during the outsourcing relationship between the companies, says an order issued by the court on June 26.
Infosys, meanwhile, insists that it has satisfied its obligations noting that it has already provided relevant names, descriptions of roles, and access to documents sufficient to address the inquiries. It accuses Cognizant of attempting to expand the scope of the interrogatories beyond what was originally agreed upon.
Notably, Cognizant is pressing for further compelled responses, while Infosys seeks to limit what it sees as duplicative and burdensome requests.
The source of the legal dispute between Infosys and Cognizant dates back to last year and involves accusations of trade secret theft and anti-competitive practices. While Cognizant claims that Infosys stole trade secrets related to Cognizant’s healthcare platform TriZetto, Infosys’s counterclaim is that Cognizant is using its market position to hinder Infosys’ development of a competing platform
Infosys refused to comment on the matter because of their silent period.