(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a $919.9 million jury verdict in favor of DuPont Co in a case over the alleged theft of trade secrets for a fiber used to make Kevlar bulletproof vests.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia said the verdict against South Korea's Kolon Industries Inc <120110.KS> must be voided because the trial judge improperly excluded relevant evidence that was material to Kolon's defense.
A Richmond jury had awarded the damages in September 2011, after DuPont had accused Kolon of deliberately stealing trade secrets and confidential information regarding its Kevlar para-aramid fiber. The fiber is also used to make tires and fiber-optic cables, in addition to body armor.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York, Editing by Franklin Paul)
Relacionados
- El PSOE avisa del detrimento del reciclaje y "dificultades" para la distribución selectiva de la basura
- PSOE: La queja del Parlamento andaluz indica que Alaya "ha cruzado una frontera que no debería en un Estado de Derecho"
- PSOE-A: La queja del Parlamento evidencia que Alaya "ha cruzado una frontera que no debería en un Estado de derecho"
- Vara y Espinosa intervendrán en unas jornadas del PSOE local de Badajoz sobre las obras de recuperación del río Guadiana
- PSOE afea que no se diera la palabra en el Pleno de Arganzuela a una asociación vecinal que demanda un nuevo instituto
